State v. Reyes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

88 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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he doctrine of fundamental error should be applied sparingly, to prevent a miscarriage of justice, and not to excuse the failure to make proper objections in the court below. With regard to a criminal conviction, the doctrine is resorted to only if the defendant's innocence appears indisputable or if the question of his [or her] guilt is so doubtful that it would shock the conscience to permit the conviction to stand.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Schoonmaker · State v. Balderama

2. “When reviewing the denial of a motion to suppress, we must determine whether the law was correctly applied to the facts, viewing them in a manner most favorable to the prevailing party; all reasonable inferences in support of the court's decision will be indulged in, and all inferences or evidence to the contrary will be disregarded.”

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

3. “convictions under [two] theories of first degree murder resulted from ambiguous jury instructions because the jury was not told that it could not convict [the defendant] for both deliberate murder and felony murder”

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