State v. Trujillo’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 district · 146 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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a]n isolated, minor impropriety ordinarily is not sufficient to warrant reversal, because a fair trial is not necessarily a perfect one.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Boergadine · State v. Garvin

2. “1. The death was a foreseeable result of the defendant’s act; 2. The act of the defendant was a significant cause of the death of [the victim]. The defendant’s act was a significant cause of death if it was an act which, in a natural and continuous chain of events, uninterrupted by an outside event, resulted in the death and without which the death would not have occurred. [There may be more than one significant cause of death. If the acts of two or more persons significantly contribute to the cause of death, each act is a significant cause of death.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. O'Kelly

3. “The following are not excluded by the hearsay rule, even though the declarant is available as a witness: (1) the statement is offered as evidence of a material fact; (2) the statement is more probative on the point for which it is offered than any other evidence which the proponent can procure through reasonable efforts; and (3) the general purposes of these rules and the interests of justice will best be served by admission of the statement into evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Children, Youth & Families Department v. Frank G.