State v. Prater’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

48 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]t was the inconsistencies in the child's testimony plus the patently false statements the child made plus the lack of any corroboration that allowed [the supreme court] to conclude that insufficient evidence supported [the defendant's] conviction.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Torres · State v. Klenz

2. “'apparently false' " because "[t]he question of which version of [the witnesses'] stories was more credible is the type of question we routinely require juries to answer”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Klenz · State v. Bryson

3. “circumstances where a witness's testimony is incredibly dubious and, as such, apparently false.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Doyle · State v. Bryson