Ex Parte Rogers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 8 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. “this instruction does not even purport to empower the jury to give mitigating effect to evidence of voluntary intoxication that does not rise to the level of temporary insanity. A juror who believed a capital [defendant] was not so intoxicated as to be incapable of appreciating the wrongfulness of his action [i.e., being temporarily insane] might nevertheless find him less morally culpable than would have been a sober man committing the same crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Nethery v. Collins

2. “that the findings and conclusions entered by the trial court are supported by the record and upon such basis the relief sought is denied.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Drinkard v. Johnson

3. “Voluntary intoxication does not constitute a defense to the commission of a crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Drinkard v. Johnson