State v. Finley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Appellant’s defense was that he did not commit the assault, that the charges were fabricated to silence him about the complainant’s sexual conduct with her neighbor .... The unique facts of this controversy, coupled with the appellant’s right to confront and cross examine wit nesses against him and to present a full defense to the charges makes relevant evidence which tends to establish motive, bias, and prejudice on the part of the prosecuting witness. Since the proffered evidence is essential to a full and fair determination of appellant’s guilt and was offered for purposes other than to attack the complainant’s character by revelation of her sexual activity with a third party, we conclude that such evidence does not come within the purview of the Rape Shield Statute.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Grace · State v. Grovenstein