Conners v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When so read, if the instructions fairly announce the law of the case and create no injustice, no reversible error will be found.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 902 So. 2d 615 - Forkner v. State · 888 So. 2d 1178 - Crimm v. State

2. “After a defendant makes a motion for a JNOV, the trial court must consider all of the evidence—not just the evidence which supports the State's case—in the light most favorable to the State ... if the facts point in favor of the defendant to the extent that reasonable jurors could not have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, viewing all facts in the light most favorable to the State, then it must sustain the assignment of error.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lott v. State · 910 So. 2d 748 - Jerninghan v. State

3. “Once the jury has returned a verdict of guilty in a criminal case, we are not at liberty to direct that the defendant be discharged short of a conclusion on our part that given the evidence, taken in the light most favorable to the verdict, no reasonable, hypothetical juror could find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was guilty.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 909 So. 2d 1184 - Grimes v. State