Kilpatrick v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “testimony we will not impinge on the jury's responsibility to judge witness credibility. 2. Sentencing DeVries was sentenced to forty-five years. 2 At sentencing, DeVries argued the only aggravating circumstance the trial court could consider was his criminal history, as”

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

2. “Rather, we look to the evidence and reasonable inferences drawn therefrom that support the verdict and will affirm the conviction if there is probative evidence from which a reasonable jury could have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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

3. “where a trial court merges some offenses into others for the purposes of sentencing, there is no double jeopardy violation ... because under those circumstances the defendant is not being punished for the merged offenses.”

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