State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “an act committed with unlawful force or violence, that causes or creates a substantial risk of bodily injury to another,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ricks · McCann v. Bryon L. Rosquist, D.C., P.C.

2. “the evidence is ambiguous and susceptible to alternative explanations, the trial court must give the lesser included offense instruction if any one of the alternative interpretations provides both a rational basis for a verdict acquitting the defendant of the offense charged and convicting him of the included offense. ... [T]his standard does not allow the court in jury cases to weight ] the credibility of the evidence offered by a defendant in support of his or her request for a lesser included offense instruction.... It follows that in determining whether a rational jury could acquit on the greater charge and find guilt on the lesser charge, the court must view the evidence and the inferences that can be drawn from it in the light most favorable to the defendant.”

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

3. “A person commits forcible sexual abuse if the victim is 14 years of age or older and, under circumstances not amounting to rape, object rape, sodomy, or attempted rape or sodomy, the actor ... touches the breast of a female, ... with intent to cause substantial emotional or bodily pain to any person or with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person, without the consent of the other, regardless of the sex of any participant.”

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