Clancy v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When a defendant contends on appeal that the State presented insufficient evidence to sustain a conviction, we neither reweigh the evidence nor judge the credibility of witnesses, and we affirm if there is substantial evidence of probative value supporting each element of the crime from which a reasonable trier of fact could have found the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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

2. “Reading the false informing statute to allow convictions only if police officers are positive a crime has been committed would undoubtedly encourage the coverup of crimes, by deceit and lying in situations where police suspect, but cannot be certain, that a crime has been committed. Public policy and the interests of justice are not served if that conduct occurs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Taylor v. State

3. “the State violated his Fifth Amendment right to silence when, during its case-in-chief, it questioned a police officer regarding Clan-ey's failure to contact the officer to provide his version of the accident while the investigation was ongoing but before Clancy was charged.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Owens v. State