Routier v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “have a strong tendency to engender a reasonable doubt in an average juror's mind”

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

2. “[E]ven if the DNA testing to which the appellant is entitled under the statute does in fact provide evidence to corroborate her story ..., she may not be entitled to relief by way of habeas corpus because she may well fall short of meeting the onerous standard for proving actual innocence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Holloway

3. “The State presented circumstantial evidence suggesting that there was no intruder, that the crime scene had been 'staged,' that [Routier] had inflicted the wounds on herself, and that she had some pecuniary motive to murder her children.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reed v. State