McClain v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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

1. “2. The matters considered, reviewed and included in counsel’s search were: (a) the reason for Mr. Bun-ton’s arrest and the circumstances, interrogation, search and seizure surrounding the arrest; (b) any possibility of violations of Mr. Bunton’s right to counsel; (c) the entire trial transcript and the transcript of Mr. Bunton’s pretrial motion hearing; (d) all of the rulings of the trial court; (e) any possible prosecutorial misconduct; (f) all of the jury instructions offered, granted and refused (g) all exhibits, whether admitted into evidence or not, and the evidentiary foundation, relevance, and chain of custody; (h) the consideration of any misapplication of the law in sentencing (i) the indictment and all of the pleadings in the record [sic] and (j) any possible ineffective assistance of counsel issues. 3. Counsel further confirms that he has, as of the date of filing this brief, mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, a copy of this brief and correspondence informing Mr. Bun-ton that counsel finds no arguable issues in the record and that Mr. Bunton has a right to file a pro se brief. 4. Counsel for appellant requests that the Court grant Mr. Bunton 30 days of additional time in which to file a pro se brief if he desires to do so. 5. Counsel stands ready to prepare supplemental memoranda of law on any issues requested by the court.”

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