State v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Here, the testimony is of prior drug sales utilizing a similar sales technique. However, this is not enough to satisfy Lyle . Campbell was tried on a single charge of distribution. The methodology of prior sales is not relevant to prove this transaction. Several police officers who were present at the transaction and arrest testified. The confidential informant also testified. By introducing the prior bad acts, the State was not trying to prove a common scheme but to convince the jury that because Campbell sold crack cocaine in the past, he was selling crack cocaine on this occasion. This is precisely the type of inference that Lyle prohibits.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Tuffour · State v. Humphries