State v. Rand’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““There is, however, an additional class of cases in which the misconduct of a defendant may be received, irrespective of any bearing on character, and yet not as evidential of one of the above matters (design, motive, or the like), or as relevant to any particular subsidiary proposition. That class includes other criminal acts which are an inseparable part of the whole deed.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Lyons · State v. Oppedal

2. ““Let it be said that such acts [are] receivable as ‘necessary parts of the proof of an entire deed’ or ‘inseparable elements of the deed’, or ‘concomitant parts of the criminal act’, or anything else that carries its own reasoning and definition with it. * *”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Lyons · State v. Oppedal

3. ““ ‘The evidence was not offered for the purpose of proving another crime. If the facts proved had a material bearing upon the issues in the case, they were admissible in evidence; and this would be true regardless of whether they constituted a crime or not.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Crisman