Reynolds v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... if a doubt arises as to the sanity of the defendant, the court must order a jury to be impaneled .... It is well-settled in Oklahoma that the doubt referred to in the statute is that doubt which must arise in the mind of the trial court. See, Russell v. State, 528 P.2d 336 (Okl.Cr.1974). The trial court may look to the source of the information and motive indetermining whether there is doubt which would justify a sanity hearing, and the existence of a doubt as to defendant’s sanity must arise from facts of a substantial nature. See, Laslovich v. State, 377 P.2d 977 (Okl.Cr.1962). There must exist reasons to believe that the defendant’s claim of insanity is genuine and not simulated to delay justice, and the finding of the trial court will not be disturbed on appeal unless a clear abuse of discretion is shown. See, Haynes v. State, 473 P.2d 299 (Okl.Cr.1970); Reynolds v. State, 575 P.2d 628 (Okl.Cr.1978).”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Phillips v. State · Dollar v. State

2. ““ . . . whether at [the moment the arrest was made] the facts and circumstances within their knowledge and of which they had reasonably trustworthy information were sufficient to warrant a prudent man in believing that the [arres-tee] had committed or was committing an offense . . . .””

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