Dill v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 61 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The purpose of a jury instruction is to inform the jury of the law applicable to the facts without misleading the jury and to enable it to comprehend the case clearly and arrive at a just, fair, and correct verdict.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ham v. State · Seeley v. State

2. “Errors in the giving or refusing of instructions are harmless where a conviction is clearly sustained by the evidence and the jury could not properly have found otherwise.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Christapher Batchelor v. State of Indiana · Taylor v. State

3. “[elrrors in the giving or refusing of instructions are harmless where a conviction is clearly sustained by the evidence and the jury could not properly have found otherwise. An instruction error will result in reversal when the reviewing court cannot say with complete confidence that a reasonable jury would have rendered a guilty verdict had the instruction not been given.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smith v. State · Stoltmann v. State