State v. Ivory’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In State v. Hopkins, 192 N.W.2d 747, 752 (Iowa 1972), this court stated: “McCormick suggests ‘that the most acceptable test of relevancy is the question, does the evidence offered render the desired inference more probable than it would be without the evidence ?’ (Emphasis in the original). See McCormick on Evidence, section 152.” Relevant evidence is also defined in both rule 401, Federal Rules of Evidence, and rule 401, Uniform Rules of Evidence, in these words: “ ‘Relevant evidence’ means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.””

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