State v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Defendant also argued that the knife should not have been admitted because there is no evidence that the knife was the object which caused the wound on the victim’s body. There is no necessity for proof that the knife be identified specifically as the weapon used. There is no requirement that the identity of a weapon be wholly unqualified to make a weapon admissible in evidence in a criminal case. The weight to be given to the identification is for the jury. State v. Stancliff, 467 S.W.2d 26, 30 (Mo.1971). Evidence that a weapon “looks like” or “could be” the weapon is sufficient. State v. Crowley, 571 S.W.2d 460, 463 (Mo.App.1978); State v. McAllister, 534 S.W.2d 611 (Mo.App.1976).”

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