Wilson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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. “(b) On conclusion of the presentation of evidence, the court shall submit the following three issues to the jury: (1) whether the conduct of the defendant that caused the death of the deceased was committed deliberately and with ihe reasonable expectation that the death of the deceased or another would result; (2) whether there is a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Sigler v. State

2. “As we recently held in Garrett , a venireman is not subject to challenge for cause because he believed, under the reasonable doubt standard, evidence in addition to the offense before Mm was needed to answer the second pumshment issue affirmatively.”

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

3. “a bias or prejudice against any phase of the law upon which the State is entitled to rely for conviction or punishment[,]”

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