Bundy v. State’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. “[T]he trial judge was ‘kind enough’ to acknowledge that the codefendant’s objection also benefitted Bundy. When the codefendant exclaimed, ‘Your Honor, I’m sorry. I thought the State had exhausted her strikes,’ the judge explicitly addressed both of the parties in overruling the objection. He immediately stated, ‘You each get four. The State gets eight.’ (Emphasis added). Thus, the manner in which the trial judge summarily overruled the objection in this case adequately reflects that he assumed the objection was made on behalf of both defendants. As such, Bundy sufficiently preserved the peremptory challenge issue for appellate review.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Emileigh F.

2. “(c) Objections to other rulings or orders. For purposes of review by the trial court or on appeal of any other ruling or order, it is sufficient that a party, at the time the ruling or order is made or sought, makes known to the court the action that the party desires the court to take or the objection to the action of the court. The grounds for the objection need not be stated unless these rules expressly provide otherwise or the court so directs. If a party has no opportunity to object to a ruling or order at the time it is made, the absence of an objection at that time does not constitute a waiver of the objection.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Tejada