State v. Metcalfe.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Erroneous instructions are presumptively harmful and are a ground for reversal unless it affirmatively appears from the record as a whole that the error was not prejudicial.”

   11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. AC ex rel. TP v. NP · State v. Shaw

2. “'it is not necessary that the expert witness have the highest possible qualifications to testify about a particular matter;' instead, 'the expert witness must have such skill, knowledge, or experience in the field in question as to make it appear that his opinion or inference-drawing would probably aid the trier of fact in arriving at the truth.'”

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

3. “[t]he use of deadly force is justifiable . . . if the actor believes that deadly force is necessary to protect himself against death, serious bodily injury, kidnapping, rape, or forcible sodomy.”

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