State v. Oberg’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Offenses involving carnal intercourse of the sexes furnish a well-recognized exception to the general rule excluding evidence of other like crimes. For a reason peculiar to those crimes, the rule has been most liberally extended, until it may be safely asserted that, where the charge is made of the commission of any of the crimes known as sexual offenses, evidence of prior acts of the same character is admissible, even though such prior act is itself a crime. [Citing cases, textbooks, and L. R. A. note.]””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 23 Wash. 2d 678 - State v. Collier

2. “the time designated in the information was on or about April 3. That was sufficient to admit proof of the act at any time within the statute of limitations, there being no defense of alibi.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 195 Wash. 2d 91 - State v. Brooks

3. ““In our opinion, if the court committed any error at all, with respect to count three, it was in withdrawing that charge from the jury.””

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