Sanders v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The erime of attempted murder is defined as follows: A person attempts to commit a murder when, acting with the conscious purpose of killing another person, he engages in conduct that constitutes a substantial step toward killing that person. To convict the Defendant of attempted murder the State must have proved each of the following elements: The Defendant 1. acting with the conscious purpose of killing Barbara Elliott 2. did fire a deadly weapon at Barbara Elliott ~ 3. which was conduct constituting a substantial step toward the commission of the intended crime of killing Barbara Elliott. If the State failed to prove each of these elements beyond a reasonable doubt, you should find the Defendant not guilty. If the State did prove each of these elements beyond a reasonable doubt, you should find the Defendant guilty of the crime of attempted murder, a Class A felony.”

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

2. “A person who knowingly or intentionally kills another human being, commits Murder, a Felony.”

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