Keeter v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “All a party has to do to avoid the forfeiture of a complaint on appeal is to let the trial judge know what he wants, why he thinks himself entitled to it, and to do so clearly enough for the judge to understand him at a time when the trial court is in a proper position to do something about it.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Craig Rudy Reynolds v. State · Ketchum v. State

2. “the factual issues may have been intertwined, but the legal issues were not.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Resendez v. State

3. “State and defense lawyers should not testify before the jury”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Johnson v. State