2012 UT App 3 - State v. Merrill’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
June 2022
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Palace Bar, Inc. v. Fearnot · McMahon v. Young · Fitzgerald v. Manning · Spruill v. Commonwealth · State v. Clark
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An issue is inadequately briefed when the overall analysis of the issue is so lacking as to shift the burden of research and argument to the reviewing court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Merrill] said the baby was on his chest, but that [Nielsen] told the detective that she took the child to bed with her, that [Merrill] joined shortly after she took the child to the bed,. ... That [Nielsen] was on the right side and that [Merrill] was on the left side and that [the child] was in between them, on his back. And that they had laid a blanket on top of [the child].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nielsen“[she observe[d]-[Detective Van Wagoner] observe[d] blood on the baby's face and [Merrill] said the baby was on his chest. It's unclear from the police report whether that means that the baby was on the baby's chest or whether the baby was lying chest-to-chest or that the baby was lying with the baby's back to the father's chest. That's unclear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nielsen
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