State v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

33 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If the jury has been instructed on one or more lesser included offenses, and the jury cannot unanimously agree upon any of the offenses submitted, the court shall poll the jury by inquiring as to each degree of the offense upon which the jury has been instructed beginning with the highest degree and, in descending order, inquiring as to each lesser degree until the court has determined at what level of the offense the jury has disagreed.”

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

2. “We review the district court’s decision to admit evidence under an abuse of discretion standard. An abuse of discretion relating to the admission of evidence is measured by whether the district court’s ruling was clearly untenable or not justified by reason, and by whether the ruling was clearly against the logic and effect of the facts and circumstances of the case.”

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

3. “It is apparent that Rule 5-611(D) was likely drafted, for the most part, based on the committee's reading of Castrillo .”

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