State v. Deans’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If * * ⅜ con(juct 0f a third party * * ⅜ is an issue and if the evidence of “other crimes, wrongs, or acts” by the third party is not offered to prove the third party’s character as a basis for an inference as to his conduct but instead is offered to prove the conduct of the third party without any need to infer his character, then the evidence is admissible.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bellaphant · State v. Greenleaf