State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[H]ow can we truly say that the trial court has not abused its discretion when we do not know the reasons for its ruling on the new trial'motions? How can we state that the trial judge correctly applied the standard for each new trial motion when all he tells us is that he grants or denies them based on this or that rule?” [Quick, supra,] at 771 , 727 P.2d at 1199 . Williams, supra, 112 Idaho at 461 , 732 P.2d at 699 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Williams