State v. Rowe’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

46 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Such out-of-court statements are clearly not relevant to the issue of the defendant’s mental state at the time of the alleged crimes. While considerable latitude is permitted in the admission of evidence tending to show the mental condition of the accused when insanity is the defense, it must relate to the mental state of the accused at the time of the acts charged.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 1 Neb. Ct. App. 914 - State v. Anderson

2. “It is neither for the trial court nor for this court on appeal to draw conclusions of fact when two reasonable inferences may be drawn from the evidence.”

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