State v. Mems’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Assessing the credibility of a witness and the weight to be given a witness’s testimony is exclusively the province of the jury. The jury is free to accept part and reject part of a witness’s testimony. Inconsistencies or conflicts between one witness and another do not necessarily constitute false testimony or serve as a basis for reversal. “It will be noted that in reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence we do not try the facts anew. Our responsibility extends no further than to make a painstaking review of the record to determine whether the evidence, direct and circumstantial, viewed most favorably to support a finding of guilt is sufficient to permit the jury to reach that conclusion.””

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