Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “You are instructed that under our law no evidence obtained or derived by an officer or other person as a result of an unlawful stop and detention shall be admissible in evidence against an accused. An officer is permitted, however, to make a temporary, investigative detention of a motorist if the officer has a reasonable suspicion that some activity out of the ordinary is or has occurred, that the person detained is connected with such activity, and that there is some indication that the activity is related to a crime or a criminal offense. Now, bearing in mind these instructions, if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on the occasion in question the defendant, William C. Chubb, did have his bright lights on and did stagger to and from the 7-Elev-en store immediately preceding his detention by the police officer involved herein, then such detention of the accused would be legal. Unless you find the facts so to be beyond a reasonable doubt, you will disregard the testimony of the officers relative to the detaining of the defendant and their conclusions drawn as a result thereof and you will not consider such evidence for any purpose whatsoever and say by your verdict “not guilty.””

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

2. “"Now if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the 12th day of July, 1977, in Harris County, Texas, as charged in Count One of the indictment, the defendant, Keith Wayne Schmidt, with intent to deprive Grady Steeples, the owner, of his property, belonging to said owner, did unlawfully appropriate or unlawfully attempt to appropriate from Grady Steeples said property belonging to Grady Steeples, and that the defendant, in so doing, and with intent to obtain or maintain control of said property then and there intentionally or knowingly threatened or placed said owner in fear of imminent bodily injury or death, and that the defendant used or exhibited a deadly weapon, to wit, a firearm, then you will find defendant guilty of aggravated robbery as charged in County One of the indictment. "Unless you so find beyond a reasonable doubt, or if you have a reasonable doubt thereof, you will acquit the defendant of aggravated robbery as charged in County One of the indictment."”

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

3. “[Ijnherent in the statutory requirement that an accused be shown to have intentionally or knowingly threatened or placed another in fear of imminent bodily injury or death is that an owner’s lack of consent to a forcible taking of his property is a non-issue in a robbery case. Stated another way, a taking “without the owner’s effective consent” never becomes a disputed fact issue when it is alleged, proven and found that the owner was threatened or placed in fear of imminent bodily injury or death intentionally or knowingly by an accused in the course of the taking. /”

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