Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 59 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The failure to make a contemporaneous objection to the admission of evidence at trial results in waiver of the error on appeal.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Granger v. State · Brown v. State

2. “Although a trial court may have acted within its lawful discretion in determining a sentence, Article VII, Sections 4 and 6 of the Indiana Constitution authorize independent appellate review and revision of a sentence through Indiana Appellate Rule 7(B), which provides that a court may revise a sentence authorized by statute if, after due consideration of the trial court's decision, the Court finds that the sentence is inappropriate in light of the nature of the offense and the character of the offender. The burden is on the defendant to persuade us that his sentence is inappropriate.”

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

3. “The failure to make a contemporaneous objection to the admission of evidence at trial results in waiver of the error on. appeal. A contemporaneous objection affords the trial court the opportunity to make a final ruling on the matter in the context in which the evidence is introduced.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas L. Hale v. State of Indiana