State v. Chandler’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “credibility statements made during the interview were admitted not to prove that [the] defendant was untruthful or that the victims were truthful, but rather as context for the responses that those statements elicited from [the] defendant”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 291 Or. App. 146 - State v. Davis · 291 Or. App. 573 - State v. Peterson

2. “[A]n out-of-court statement about the credibility of a witness * * * is subject to the categorical prohibition against vouching evidence only if the statement is offered for the truth of the credibility opinion that it expresses.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 291 Or. App. 146 - State v. Davis · 291 Or. App. 573 - State v. Peterson

3. “serve[ ] the policy goals of ensuring that the jury remains the sole arbiter of witness credibility and that the jury's role in assessing witness credibility is not usurped by another witness's opinion testimony.”

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