McBride v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Without some evidence excluding the equally reasonable hypothesis that [defendant] was unaware of the presence of the cocaine, the trier of fact could not conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that [defendant] knowingly possessed the cocaine.”

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

2. “The evidence here is weaker than that declared insufficient in Humason , since there is no evidence in this case that appellant was driving the truck shortly before the cocaine was found.”

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