Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The precise question presented is whether in an aggravated robbery case fundamental error attends a charge of the court to the jury applying the law to the facts which omits the specific intent element of robbery as alleged in the indictment — ‘with intent to obtain and maintain control of the property’ — but, instead states it as ‘with intent to appropriate the property.’ When, as here, the charge elsewhere instructs the jury that ‘appropriate’ means ‘to acquire or otherwise exercise control over property other than real property.’ we find that such a charge is not fatally defective.” pp. 834 — 5.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Martinez v. State