39 Okla. Crim. 4 - Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It has been repeatedly held by this court that the character or reputation of the accused cannot be put in issue by offering testimony as to his bad character, unless the defendant first offers evidence as to his good character, then the prosecution may rebut it by evidence of bad character. If the law permitted the introduction of evidence as to the other crimes committed by the defendant, other than the one for which he is on trial, or would permit the state to offer testimony of his general bad character as original evidence against him, it would result in a confusion of the issues before the jury.””

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