State v. Tabaldi’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]t constituted evidence that [he] was a 'perver[t]' " who would sexually assault his own stepdaughter. "We review challenges to a trial court's evidentiary rulings under our unsustainable exercise of discretion standard and reverse only if the rulings are clearly untenable or unreasonable to the prejudice of a party's case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Jeremy M. Fiske

2. “[E]vidence is unfairly prejudicial if its primary purpose or effect is to appeal to a jury's sympathies, arouse its sense of horror, provoke its instinct to punish, or trigger other mainsprings of human action that may cause a jury to base its decision on something other than the established propositions in the case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. George J. Colbath

3. “Unfair prejudice is not ... mere detriment to a defendant from the tendency of the evidence to prove guilt, in which sense all evidence offered by the prosecution is meant to be prejudicial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. George J. Colbath