Holland v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Rule 404(b) makes no distinction between substantiated and unsubstantiated conduct, or between charged and uncharged conduct. This court has explicitly held that our application of the pedophile exception does not require that the prior act be charged or substantiated.”

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

2. “[e]vidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith.”

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

3. “require that there be a sufficient degree of similarity between the evidence to be introduced and the sexual conduct of the defendant.”

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