State v. Serrano’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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. “defendant's argument on review has a fundamentally different focus from his argument at trial. Because the trial court was never presented with the argument for acquittal that [the] defendant advances on review,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. K.J.B. (In re K.J.B.)

2. “In determining whether it was error to give a particular jury instruction, [we] review[ ] the instructions as a whole to determine whether they accurately state the law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 293 Or. App. 717 - State v. Berry

3. “The regulation of jury argument is, generally speaking, committed to the discretion of the trial court.”

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