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← 32 A.3d 892 - State v. Rushlow

State v. Rushlow’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited

14 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Pailin · State v. Tempest · State v. Pugliese · State v. Haslam · State v. Adefusika

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

  1. “[w]hen this Court determines that specific testimony constitutes impermissible bolstering, our task is then to determine whether the trial justice's decision to admit such improper testimony constituted prejudicial error.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the opinion testimony has the same substantive import as if it squarely addressed and bolstered another witness's credibility * * *.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “provided the jury with `ample opportunity to form an independent opinion' about her credibility.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.