State v. Stringer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 125 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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) a prosecutor's expression of guilt invades the province of the jury and is an usurpation of its function to declare the guilt or innocence of an accused; (2) the jury may simply adopt the prosecutor's views instead of exercising their own independent judgment as to the conclusions to be drawn from the testimony; and (3) the prosecutor's personal views inject into the case irrelevant and inadmissible matters or a fact not legally proved by the evidence, and add to the probative force of the testimony adduced at the trial the weight of the prosecutors' personal, professional, or official influence.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Stewart · State v. Gladue

2. “[T]he party seeking to introduce battered woman syndrome evidence must lay an appropriate foundation substantiating that the conduct and behavior of the witness is consistent with the generally recognized symptoms of the battered woman syndrome, and that the witness has behaved in such a manner that the jury would be aided by expert testimony which provides a possible explanation for the behavior.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Caudill, Wd-07-009 (3-31-2008) · State v. Jill Marie Lotter

3. “merely provided the jury with information to aid the jury in evaluating the evidence,”

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