State v. Nevada R. Ugalde’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]f not intended to inflame the passions of the jur[ors] through an appeal to their sympathies for [the victim], then what was this tactic intended to do?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. People v. Manyik

2. “by creating a fictitious character based on the dead victim and by ‘testifying’ in the voice of the character as if he had been a percipient witness,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. People v. Manyik

3. “‘Channeling the victim’ is a technique by which a lawyer speaks to the jury in the first person as though [he] is the injured or deceased person.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. People v. Manyik