Valentine 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If the defendant is charged with armed robbery, for example, and the presence of a weapon is uncontested, but [the] defendant pleads insanity, no instruction on a lesser included offense of [unarmed] robbery is necessary.” Hansen’s case is similar to the supreme court’s hypothetical. Hansen did not dispute the occurrence of an armed robbery and murder; he disputed the State’s assertion that he had been an accomplice to those crimes. It therefore appears that, even if Hansen or the State had requested instructions and verdicts on the lesser offenses of either attempted robbery or second-degree robbery, the trial court could have properly denied those requests. 4 . Hansen proposed an alternative complicity instruction which would have informed the jury that a person is guilty as an accomplice when that person "specifically intended to associate with [another person’s] venture”

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

2. “This court has held that a photograph is admissible in evidence in the discretion of the trial judge, as an aid to the court or jury, after it has been shown to be a faithful representation of whatever it purports to depict, provided it is relevant, and provided its evidentiary value is not outweighed by any prejudice it might create.”

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