State v. T. Ritesman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

27 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “make sure that [the victim] is safe, to make sure that she is heard, and that we give the control back to her.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Laird · State v. D. Komeotis

2. “Conducting a full analysis in order to determine whether to find plain error would defeat the underlying rule that a party must object to error at trial, because errors should be brought to the attention of the trial court where they can be initially addressed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. M. Lau

3. “We use our inherent power of common law plain error review sparingly, on a case-by-case basis, and only in a narrow class of cases.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. M. Lau