Willis v. State’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. “leave out of consideration the evidence presented by the unsuccessful party which conflicts with the successful party's evidence, and afford every favorable inference to the successful party's evidence which may be reasonably and fairly drawn from that evidence. Even though it is possible to draw other inferences from the evidence presented, the jury has the responsibility to resolve conflicts in the evidence. We will not substitute our judgment for that of the jury when we are applying this rule....”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ekholm v. State · Sotolongo-Garcia v. State

2. “[the purpose of this type of impeachment evidence is to show a witness to be generally capable of making errors in his testimony. In doing so, counsel can resort to the witness' own prior statements in which that witness has given a contrary version.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Boykin v. State · Seward v. State

3. “In the absence of an abuse of discretion, we will not disturb the trial court's determination.”

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