State v. Garris’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. “In criminal cases, the appellate court sits to review errors of law only and is bound by the trial court's factual findings unless they are clearly erroneous. Thus, on review, the appellate court is limited to determining whether the trial judge abused his discretion.”

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

2. “because [the potential juror] was close in age to [the defendant] and was from [the same city as the defendant]; therefore, the solicitor assumed that the juror and [the defendant] went to school together”

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

3. “the trial court erred in denying his request to call an expert to rebut the reply testimony given by the State's expert.”

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