DeJesus v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “While the phrase “in the course of committing a theft,” requires “a causal connection between the use or threat of force and the theft,” the code provision does not require that the application of force be contemporaneous with the actual appropriation of the property. It is sufficient under the provision that the force be applied to facilitate the commission of the taking or the retention of the property after it has been appropriated.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Dixon v. State

2. “'The sole concern of the Fifth Amendment, on which Miranda was based, is governmental coercion.' `[T]he voluntariness of a Miranda waiver [does not] ... require an abstract inquiry into the defendant's `free will' or subjective view of reality.' Such voluntariness does not concern `moral or psychological pressures to confess emanating from sources other than official coercion.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Turner v. State

3. “The corpus delicti rule serves to protect those defendants who may be pressured to confess to crimes that they either did not commit or crimes that did not occur. [ Bright v. State, Del.Supr., 490 A.2d 564, 569 (1985).] In our view, a person is just as likely to confess to a non-existing felony as he is to confess to a nonexisting murder.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 793 So. 2d 1190 - McArthur v. State