Winer v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Two or more offenses may be charged in the same indictment or information in a separate count for each offense if the offenses charged are of the same or similar character or are based on the same act or transaction or on two or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan. Del.Super. Ct.Crim. R. 8(a).”

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

2. “If it appears that a defendant or the state is prejudiced by a joinder of offenses or of defendants in an indictment or information or by such joinder for trial together, the court may order an election or separate trials of counts, grant a severance of defendants or provide whatever relief justice requires. Del.Super. Ct.Crim. R. 14.”

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

3. “the State may prove a defendant's guilt exclusively through circumstantial evidence, and [ ] a jury may infer intent from the defendant's conduct”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 239 Md. App. 571 - Sewell v. State