Hannah v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 21 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the defendant may be forced to choose between testifying in her or his own defense with the risk of being convicted by the jury's misuse of impeachment evidence as propensity evidence, on one hand, and not testifying and foregoing a defense, on the other.”

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

2. “Evidence is prejudicial when it tends to have some adverse effect ... beyond tending to prove the fact or issue that justified its admission.”

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

3. “had no tendency to prove any issue other than ... [that the defendant] was a violent thug”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Recio