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← 2017 MT 76 - State v. B. Daffin

State v. B. Daffin’s Empirical Analysis

2017

Citation profile

35
cited by 35 later decisions
2
states following
January 2024
most recently cited

33 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Himelwright · State v. District Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District of Montana · State v. Ellison · State v. Stewart · State v. Higley

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

  1. “probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “unfairly prejudicial only if it arouses the jury's hostility or sympathy for one side without regard to its probative value, if it confuses or misleads the trier of fact, or if it unduly distracts from the main issues.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “The distinction between admissible and inadmissible Rule 404(b) evidence turns on the intended purpose of the evidence, not its substance.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.