921 So. 2d 288 - Garrett v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] circumstantial-evidence case is one where the State is 'without a confession and wholly without eyewitnesses to the gravamen of the offense charged.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. La'Darrian McCray v. State of Mississippi · 253 So. 3d 343 - Adam Chism v. State of Mississippi

2. “[W]here the defendant or the defendant’s witnesses are the only eyewitnesses to the homicide, their version, if reasonable, must be accepted as true, unless substantially contradicted in material particulars by a credible witness or witnesses for the [SJtate, or by the physical facts or by the facts of common knowledge.”

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

3. “defendant is not entitled to a circumstantial evidence instruction where both circumstantial and direct evidence are admitted at trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 990 So. 2d 206 - Colburn v. State