State v. Tims’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[qjuashing the panel and commencing the jury selection process anew does not really correct the error. The defendant is simply accorded a new opportunity to obtain a jury composed according to race-neutral criterion; the discrimination endured by the excluded venirepersons goes completely unredressed since they remain wrongfully excluded from jury service.”

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

2. ““While we caution that any testimony must be carefully analyzed regarding the implications resulting from a defendant’s silence, merely testifying to the conclusion of an interrogation after a defendant waived his right to silence is not prejudicial error." (Emphasis supplied).”

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

3. “A request for an attorney may be perceived to be a remark which would be made by a guilty party. It is an effective reclamation of defendant's right to silence and thus is not proper comment in testimony.”

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