State v. Craft’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is raised for the first time on appeal, there is no lower court ruling to review and we must decide whether the defendant was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel as a matter of law.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Casper · State v. Gardner

2. “(citation and internal quotation marks omitted)); State v. Snyder , 860 P.2d 351 , 359 (Utah App. 1993) (determining that counsel's performance was”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Jamieson · State v. Casper

3. “"(1) [T]he opportunity of the witness to view the actor during the event; (2) the witness's degree of attention to the actor at the time of the event; (3) the witness's capacity to observe the event, including his or her physical and mental acuity; (4) whether the witness's identification was made spontaneously and remained consistent thereafter, or whether it was the product of suggestion; and (5) the nature of the event being observed and the likelihood that the witness would perceive, remember and relate it correctly. This last area includes such factors as whether the event was an ordinary one in the mind of the observer during the time it was observed, and whether the race of the actor was the same as the observer's."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2018 UT App 134 - State v. Reyos