Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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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. ““We will reverse a circuit court’s findings only if they are ‘clearly erroneous.’ Barbour v. State, 903 So.2d 858, 861 (Ala.Crim.App.2004). “ ‘ “ ‘[A] finding is “clearly erroneous” when although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.’ United States v. United States Gypsum Co., 333 U.S. 364, 395 , 68 S.Ct. 525, 542 , 92 L.Ed. 746 (1948) .... If the district court’s account of the evidence is plausible in light of the record viewed in its entirety, the court of appeals may not reverse it even though convinced that had it been sitting as the trier of fact, it would have weighed the evidence differently. Where there are two permissible views of the evidence, the factfinder’s choice between them cannot be clearly erroneous. United States v. Yellow Cab Co., 338 U.S. 338, 342 , 70 S.Ct. 177, 179 , 94 L.Ed. 150 (1949); see also Inwood Laboratories, Inc. v. Ives Laboratories, Inc., 456 U.S. 844 , 102 S.Ct. 2182 , 72 L.Ed.2d 606 (1982).” [Anderson v. City of Bessemer City, N.C.], 470 U.S. [564] at 573-74, 105 S.Ct. [1504] at 1511 [(1985)].’ “Morrison v. State, 551 So.2d 435, 436-37 (Ala.Crim.App.1989); see also Barbour v. State, 903 So.2d at 862 .””

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

2. “is excessive and that the Constitution `places a substantive restriction on the State's power to take the life' of a mentally retarded offender.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Lorraine, 2006-T-0100 (12-14-2007)