Britton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In cases applying the plain error standard, we have written that error is prejudicial when 'a reasonable probability exists, absent the error, that the appellant may have enjoyed a more favorable verdict”

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

2. “[a]s a general rule, an unambiguous oral pronouncement prevails over a contrary provision in a written order.”

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