State v. Inman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"the competing interests of the parties; the nature of the case; the gravity of the error; the ends of justice in the particular case; how the error came to the court's attention; and whether the policies behind the general rule requiring preservation of error have been served in the case in another way * * *."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 289 Or. App. 391 - State v. Cone

2. “[T]he ease with which any error could have been avoided or corrected should be a significant factor in an appellate court's decision whether to exercise its discretion to correct a plain, but unpreserved, error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 288 Or. App. 609 - Dep't of Human Servs. v. H. F. E. (In re J. R. C.)

3. “from the victim's mother rather than being the 'kind of expert vouching testimony' that most often has prompted us to conclude that the trial court plainly should have stricken the testimony sua sponte ,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 289 Or. App. 391 - State v. Cone