2012 UT App 180 - State v. High’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “any absence of mistake or lack of accident,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Hood · 2017 UT App 172 - State v. Courtney

2. “Put simply, if a scrupulous examination would have resulted in the evidence being admitted, the trial court's failure to conduct that examination has not harmed the defendant. In the alternative, we may assume that a scrupulous examination would have resulted in the exclusion of the evidence but that there is no reasonable likelihood that the assumed error affected the outcome.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Lucero

3. “[e]vidence of a crime, wrong, or other act is not admissible to prove a person's character in order to show that on a particular occasion the person acted in conformity with the character.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 2017 UT App 172 - State v. Courtney