State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the admittance of these prior fires unfairly prejudiced the Defendants as no evidence exists that links Defendants with intentionally causing these prior fires. Therefore, these fires cannot be considered other crimes, wrongs or acts under Montana Rules of Evidence 403 and 404(b). [Emphasis added.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Enright · State v. Link