State v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

52 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Numerous rapes follow the pattern of barroom pickup, voluntary entry into the offender's vehicle by the victim, driving to a remote area, advances, resistance and forcible intercourse. The sequence of events has no distinctive qualities that distinguish the acts from other rapes thus bringing the events within the purview of the similarity element of the crimes admission rule.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Martin · State v. Featherson

2. “The crimes here are separated by two years, six months and one week. Although a three year interval between a prior act and the charged crime is close to the limit of being too remote, other acts occurring three years prior to the crime have been held admissible when the acts engaged in by the defendant constitutes [sic] a continuing course of conduct. Factors that affect the determination of whether a prior act is too remote includes [sic] the number of incidents that have occurred, the nature of the incidents and the proximity of the last act to the date of the occurrence of the conduct at issue. State v. Minns (1969), 80 N.M. 269 , 454 P.2d 355, 358 .”

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

3. “the jury might overestimate the probative value of the evidence and assume that merely because the defendant committed crimes before, he is likely to be guilty of the crime charged”

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