Gantz v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “You are instructed that a person may not be convicted for solicitation on the uncorroborated testimony of the person allegedly solicited and unless the solicitation is made under circumstances strongly corroborative of both the solicitation itself and the defendant’s intent that the other person act on the solicitation, and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of an offense, but it must tend to connect the defendant with its commission. And so, in this case, unless you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that the testimony of Adrian Franks is corroborated by other evidence in the case, outside of the evidence of the said Adrian Franks, and that the solicitation itself, if any, was made under circumstances strongly corroborative of both the solicitation itself, if any, and the defendant’s intent, if any, that Adrian Franks act on the alleged solicitation, then you will acquit the defendant; or if you have a reasonable doubt as to the existence of either of such matters, then you will find the defendant not guilty.”

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