State v. Couch’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The State’s point on appeal contends: The trial court erred in granting respondent’s motion for judgment of acquittal notwithstanding the verdict of the jury as to first-degree sexual abuse because the evidence presented by the state, viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, was sufficient to sustain that conviction in that the jury could reasonably infer that respondent subjected [victim] to sexual contact without her consent when he forced her against his truck, ripped open her shirt and fondled her breasts through her bra.”

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