State v. Matt’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

60 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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The court overruled defense counsel’s objection to testimony by a police detective, granted defense counsel’s request to call a probation officer to impeach witness Nimocks’s credibility, denied defense counsel’s request to introduce into evidence the note allegedly written by Oldhorn to Matt while in jail, and denied defense counsel’s motion to dismiss for insufficient evidence.”

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

2. “Rather than place some sort of burden on the State at the appellate level, this Court should carefully examine the record to determine if the denial of the right to be present could have reasonably contributed to a conviction.... [A] defendant must make a persuasive claim to the appellate court that he was prejudiced.”

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

3. “[W]e simply cannot—in the face of a violation of the constitutional right to be present at critical stages—ignore the Supreme Court's determination that the State bears the burden of proving that a constitutional error passes muster under the Chapman standard.”

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