Hood v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “when a merger error benefits a defendant and the State fails to raise it by cross-appeal, we henceforth will exercise our discretion to correct the error upon our own initiative only in exceptional circumstances.”

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

2. “[Welch] has not shown that the trial court erred ... in failing to charge the jury on his convoluted theory of involuntary manslaughter based on reckless conduct.”

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

3. “reasonable likelihood that, but for counsel's error, the outcome of the trial would have been different.”

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