State v. Mohamud’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a defendant cannot rest on the claim that the evidence could have undermined confidence in a witness's testimony in some possible way, but must instead make some proffer as to what testimony would have been contradicted and how such a contradiction would have aided the defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 2019 UT App 71 - State v. Steele

2. “they possibly could have recorded the incident, [but] he did not know if those cameras were actually recording that day, he never viewed any recordings for [the date in question], and he had no knowledge whether or not there was an actual recording made.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 2019 UT App 71 - State v. Steele

3. “Whether the State's destruction of potentially exculpatory evidence violates due process is a question of law that we review for correctness, though we incorporate a clearly erroneous standard for the necessary subsidiary factual determinations.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 2019 UT App 71 - State v. Steele