Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 38 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution secure to each citizen the right to the presence and advice of counsel during custodial interrogation by the police. A confession of guilt procured from a subject during custodial interrogation is not admissible in a trial of criminal charges in the absence of proof beyond a reasonable doubt that counsel was present or the right thereto was voluntarily and knowingly relinquished prior to the commencement of the interrogation. When the right of counsel is asserted during questioning,- that process must cease, and a confession procured by interrogators thereafter is per se inadmissible in the absence of a new waiver of counsel evidenced by proof that the suspect initiated the resumption of questioning.”

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

2. “court indicated that counsel's challenge was premature, instructed [the juror] on the relevant law, asked [the juror] if he could follow the law, received an affirmative response, and denied the challenge for cause.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ward v. State

3. “[a] trial court can proceed to impose a penalty of death only ... when all the facts available to the court point so clearly to the imposition of the death penalty that the jury's recommendation is unreasonable.”

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