State v. Wyatt’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

67 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a party must provide the trial court with an explanation of his or her objection that is specific enough to ensure that the court can identify its alleged error with enough clarity to permit it to consider and correct the error immediately, if correction is warranted.”

   19 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 290 Or. App. 415 - State v. Cowdrey · 290 Or. App. 436 - Putnam v. Bd. of Parole & Post-Prison Supervision

2. “Generally, an issue not preserved in the trial court will not be considered on appeal.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 291 Or. App. 436 - Payne v. Kersten · 296 Or. App. 453 - State v. Weaver

3. “[n]o matter claimed as error will be considered on appeal unless the claim of error was preserved in the lower court”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 296 Or. App. 453 - State v. Weaver · 294 Or. App. 546 - Sugiyama v. Arnold