State v. Titus’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Judicial economy would be disserved if we permitted a challenge to the adequacy of the detail in the findings to be heard for the first time on appeal. Not only is an error in the detail in the findings easy for a trial judge to correct, but it is an error that is best corrected when the judge's findings are fresh in the judge's mind. Further, it is a waste of judicial resources for an appellate court to entertain such a challenge when the only likely remedy is merely a remand to the trial court for more detailed findings. We decline to offer such a remedy unless the [appellant] first provided the trial court the opportunity to correct the error.”

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

2. “[I]n cases in which factual issues are presented to and must be resolved by the trial court but . no findings of fact appear in the record, we assume that the trier of facts found them in 'accord with its decision, and we affirm the decision if from the evidence it would be reasonable to find facts to support it.”

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

3. “'to preserve an issue for appeal,] the issue must be presented to the trial court in such a way that the trial court has an opportunity to rule on that issue.'”

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