State v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “to contradictions between the victim's trial testimony and prior out-of-court statements, to contradictions as to collateral matters, or to inconsistencies not sufficient to make the testimony inherently self-destructive.”

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

2. “Trial counsel unreasonably failed to move to dismiss on Count III, leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident, on the basis of the state’s concession that no accident had occurred and on the basis that the state’s evidence at trial did not support the proposition that an accident had occurred. Appellate counsel unreasonably failed to assert on appeal that insufficient evidence supported movant’s conviction for Count III, based on the state’s evidence and its concession.”

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

3. “A person “acts knowingly”, or with knowledge, (1) With respect to his conduct or to attendant circumstances when he is aware of the nature of his conduct or that those circumstances exist;- or (2) With respect to a result of his conduct when he is aware that his conduct is practically certain to cause that result.”

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