Martin v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “errors . . . can be understood to refer only to discrepancies between the verdict delivered in court and the precise verdict physically or verbally agreed to in the jury room, not to discrepancies between the verdict delivered in court and the verdict or general result which the jury testifies it”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. ST. DOMINICS-JACKSON MEM. HOSP.

2. “The error here is not 'clerical as would be the case where the jury foreperson wrote down, in response to an interrogatory, a number different from that agreed upon by the jury, or mistakenly stated that the defendant was 'guilty' when the jury had actually agreed the defendant was not guilty.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stewart ex rel. Stewart v. Rice

3. “But where two or more statutory provisions could apply to the defendant's conduct, and the indictment itself is ambiguous as to which statute is being charged, a defendant may be sentenced only under the provision providing the lesser penalty.”

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