State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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

1. “A trial court has broad discretion over whether to admit or exclude evidence. State v. Kemp, 212 S.W.3d 135, 145 (Mo. banc 2007). Thus, we will only reverse a trial court’s ruling on the admission of evidence when the trial court has clearly abused its discretion. Id. Such “discretion is abused when a ruling is clearly against the logic of the circumstances and is so unreasonable as to indicate a lack of careful consideration.” Id. “Whether admission of the challenged testimony violated the Confrontation Clause is a question of law, which the Court reviews de novo.” State v. Justus, 205 S.W.3d 872, 878 (Mo. banc 2006).”

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