McCoy v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We have no trouble determining from the findings of the court that each of the factual allegations raised in the motion was not supported by the evidence because the court failed to believe the mov-ant’s testimony as to each of those allegations. If the findings of fact and conclusions of law sufficiently cover all points so as to permit meaningful appellate review of the court’s judgment, then those findings of fact and conclusions of law should be sufficient.”

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

2. “The court erred in not stating in sufficient particularity its findings of fact and conclusions of law ... in that the court’s finding of facts concerning the range of punishment must be stricken due to the courts [sic] failure to advise movant of said range of punishment.”

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