State v. Salazar’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. “Defendant's contention that the trial court erred in permitting the prosecutor to ask one of the two key witnesses whether defendant was defending himself against an attack when he stabbed the victim has no merit, since the purpose of the prosecutor's question was not to elicit a legal opinion on the issue of self defense — which would not have been helpful to the jury — but simply to elicit testimony as to whether the witness saw the victim do anything which prompted defendant to stab him. See R. 701 and 704, R.Evid.”

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

2. “There is no reason to believe that the victim’s testimony would have been favorable to defendant and defendant’s contention that he was prejudiced by the victim’s absence is not borne out by our examination of the record.”

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