State v. Maestas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

133 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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “To determine if jury instructions correctly state the law, we 'look at the jury instructions in their entirety and will affirm when the instructions taken as a whole fairly instruct the jury on the law applicable to the case'”

   10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Painter · State v. Pence

2. “only when the evidence, so viewed, is sufficiently inconclusive or inherently improbable that reasonable minds must have entertained a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime of which he or she was convicted.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Riker · Salt Lake City v. Carrera

3. “[clourts are not bound to accept the testimony of an expert and [are] free to judge the expert testimony as to its credibility and its persuasive influence in light of all of the other evidence in the case.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Barrani v. Barrani · ACC Capital Corporation v. Ace West Foam