State v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

51 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[In order to] successfully challenge a conviction based upon circumstantial evidence, a defendant must point to evidence in the record that is consistent with a rational theory other than guilt. However, ‘possibilities of innocence do not require reversal of a jury verdict so long as the evidence taken as a whole makes such theories seem unreasonable.’”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Stein · State v. Asfeld

2. “failed to follow the proper procedure at step two of the Batson analysis-that is, rather than determining whether each of the prosecutor's reason was race-neutral on its face , the district court analyzed whether the reasons were credible[-,]”

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

3. “Circumstantial evidence must form a complete chain that, in view of the evidence as a whole, leads so directly to the guilt of the defendant as to exclude beyond a reasonable doubt any reasonable inference other than guilt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Stein