State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the facts and circumstances relied upon to establish guilt must be consistent with each other ... and exclude every reasonable hypothesis of defendant’s innocence, but need not be absolutely conclusive of guilt, or demonstrate impossibility of innocence. The mere existence of other possible hypotheses is not enough to remove the case from the jury.”

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