State v. Moore’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 finding of outcome-determinative prejudice expresses a judicial conclusion that the erroneously admitted evidence so influenced the jury that, when considered with and balanced against all evidence properly admitted, there is a reasonable probability that the jury would have acquitted but for the erroneously admitted evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Thigpen · State v. McWilliams

2. “This is a very low-level test that is easily met. Crime statistics readily demonstrate that commission of a prior crime by a defendant is logically relevant to the issue of whether the defendant committed the crime charged simply because [recidivism] statistics demonstrate that prior offenders commit more crimes than persons who have not previously committed a crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Thigpen

3. “'insists on walking the precipice of reversible error, it must be prepared to suffer the consequences of stepping over the edge-reversal and remand for a new trial.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. McWilliams