State v. Magbulos’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “choice between the guilty verdict it rendered and a”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Angei · State v. Becker

2. “in evaluating credibility. It would therefore impair and impede the truth-seeking purpose of the criminal justice system. On the other hand, if the [finder-of-fact] can consider the defendant's interest in the outcome of the case as a relevant factor in evaluating the defendant's credibility, it is unclear why a prosecutor should be precluded from arguing this factor. In choosing between these alternative interpretations of Basham, we note that the Basham majority focused on the role of the prosecutor in its analysis, prefacing its holding with the phrase,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Akina

3. “absent unusual circumstances, the failure to instruct on a lesser included offense two levels below the offense for which the defendant is found guilty will ordinarily be harmless.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Becker