Trice v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 44 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]hile ample evidence was presented to support the three valid aggravating circumstances, the proffered mitigating factors were relatively weak.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 848 F. Supp. 946 - Stafford v. Maynard · Eddie Leroy Trice v. Ron Ward

2. “great risk of death to more than one person”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Valdez v. State · Malone v. State

3. “the general rule in Oklahoma is that where a person might be a material witness on a defendant's behalf and the accused neither places him on the stand nor accounts for his absence, failure to produce him as a witness is a legitimate matter for comment during the State's argument.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McCarty v. State