State v. Leuin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

37 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Specific instances of the conduct of a witness, for the purpose of attacking or supporting the witnesses’s character for truthfulness * * * may not be proved by extrinsic evidence. They may, however, in the discretion of the court, if clearly probative of truthfulness or untruthfulness, be inquired into on cross-examination of the witness * *”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 43 Ohio App. 3d 114 - South Euclid v. Richardson · State v. Boyle, Unpublished Decision (3-29-2004)

2. ““* * * This case does not present the situation where the evidence sought to be excluded by Evid. R. 608(B) was on a non-collateral matter or, in other words, was relevant to a material issue in this case.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 16 Ohio App. 3d 484 - State v. Williams · State v. Williams

3. ““ ‘Relevant evidence’ means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable then it would be without the evidence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 107 Ohio App. 3d 272 - Drawl v. Cleveland Orthopedic Center