Clay 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 13 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. “The Defendant 1. acting with the conscious purpose of killing Renee Clay 2. knowingly or intentionally stabbed her 3. which was conduct constituting a substantial step toward the commission of the intended crime of killing Renee Clay.”

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

3. “and to inform the jury that the State must prove that the defendant intended to kill the victim. 4 Id. at 37 . We agree that the words”

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