State v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The trial court plainly erred in failing to sua sponte intervene when, in violation of the motion in limine, the state questioned [Defendant] about his driving while intoxicated, and asked him if he told Falterman to leave his intoxicated girlfriend out in the cold instead of taking her home, because that evidence violated [Defendant's] rights to a fair trial and to be tried only for the offense with which he was charged, guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article I, Sections 10 and 17 of the Missouri Constitution, in that impeachment of [Defendant's] testimony with his uncharged misconduct prejudiced the jury against him and risked a conviction on the basis of bad character and propensity instead of the evidence of the charged offense.”

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

2. “[a] venireperson's silence may constitute an unequivocal assurance of impartiality sufficient for the purpose of rehabilitation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Clemens