State v. Haugen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “A party ordinarily may preserve an issue for review merely by raising an issue at trial; alternatively (and preferably), a party may preserve an issue by raising the issue, identifying a source for the party's position, and advancing a particular argument.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 290 Or. App. 121 - State v. Hollingsworth · 290 Or. App. 282 - State v. Lulay

2. “"while testifying before the jury, Cameron was mocking, hostile, and uncooperative toward defense counsel, calling one of [Haugen's] attorneys a 'jerk off' and asserting that the attorney was trying to 'peg [him] in a corner.' Cameron testified that, after he had decided to testify against defendants, he received a 'death contract' in the mail, threatening him and his brother. Cameron was upset with defendants for making him (as well as themselves) look guilty by committing the murder near the band room during the time when the band in which he and they were members was scheduled to practice. Moreover, they involved him in the attempted cover-up by trying to get him to hide their bloody clothes. He thought that murdering Polin because he was a 'rat' made little sense, when there were 'baby killers,' 'child molesters,' 'all kinds of rats in this prison bigger than him. Why not them?' And Cameron was hostile to defendants because they had killed a friend: 'I liked [Polin]. *** And had I known that somebody was going to kill him, I would have g[iven] him a head's up, you know. I wouldn't let somebody just, you know, sneak attack. I mean, there's-I mean, for what? For nothing.' In short, Cameron's direct testimony and his answers on cross-examination provided evidence of bias against defendants."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 297 Or. App. 498 - Brumwell v. Premo

3. “is to assure that appellate courts are able to determine whether it was error to exclude the evidence and whether any error was likely to have affected the result of the case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 290 Or. App. 282 - State v. Lulay