Biggers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 2003
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · McClain v. State · 503 So. 2d 803 - Wetz v. State · 550 So. 2d 406 - Smith v. State · 587 So. 2d 848 - Holland v. State
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence in a particular case generally warrants granting a lesser-included offense instruction if a `rational' or a `reasonable' jury could find the defendant not guilty of the principal offense charged in the indictment, yet guilty of the lesser-included offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Osborne v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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