State v. Balfour’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “alleged to have been part of a common scheme or plan.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hildreth · State v. Jimenez

2. “[The grant or denial of severance is a matter within the discretion of the trial judge, so we reverse [a denial] only if the trial judge's refusal to sever charges is a clear abuse of discretion in that it saceri-fices the defendant's right to a fundamentally fair trial. Under [the abuse of disceretion] standard, we will not reverse ... unless the decision exceeds the limits of reasonability.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hildreth · State v. Lamb

3. “'Relevant' evidence means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Pedersen · State v. Nielsen