Werner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The very purpose of 19.06's sweeping language was to distinguish the particular `mind of the accused at the time of the offense' from the mind of the theoretical `reasonable and prudent man,' and permit the jury, as the trier of fact—not the court—to evaluate the killing in such light.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Werner v. State

2. “that one does not need to be thinking of an event for another event in one's life to have an effect, a subconscious effect on him;”

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

3. “was his state of mind to defend himself because he comes from a family that did not.”

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