Chapman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “APPELLANT: I request the following charge be given to the jury. If you find from the evidence presented that the stop of the vehicle in which defendant was driving ... was done so without reasonable suspicion that criminal activi ty had occurred, then you will find, you can find that the evidence obtained as a result of that stop is inadmissible as evidence against the defendant in ... determining his guilt or innocence. And you may choose not to use such evidence in your deliberations in making your determination as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant. That would he my charge, something similar. JUDGE: No, no. It is or it isn’t. APPELLANT: I want a charge on 38.23. JUDGE: That charge you have just dictated is denied.”

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