84 Okla. Crim. 138 - Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 15 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““No judgment shall be set aside or new trial granted by any appellate court of this State in any case, * * * on the ground of * * improper admission or rejection of evidence, * * * unless, in the opinion of the court to which application is made, after an examination of the entire record, it appears that the error complained of has probably resulted in a miscarriage of justice, or constitutes a substantial violation of a constitutional or statutory right.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 90 Okla. Crim. 310 - Langley v. State

2. “The general rule is that in a prosecution for murder, when the court submits the issue and the jury finds a defendant guilty of first degree manslaughter, although under the law and .the facts the’ crime is murder, yet if the defendant is convicted of a lesser degree of homicide than that shown by the evidence, no prejudice could have resulted to him since the error is in his favor.”

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

3. “[threw] light on the defendant's state of mind at the time of the shooting, and form[ed] a part of an unbroken chain of events leading up to and climaxing with the shooting of [the victim] by the defendant.”

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