State v. Dressner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “As a general matter, La.Code Evid. art. 404(A) provides evidence of a "person's character or a trait of his character, such as a moral quality, is not admissible for the purpose of proving that he acted in conformity therewith on a particular occasion ...." However, an exception to the general inadmissibility of evidence concerning the victim's dangerous character arises under La.Code [Evid.] art. 404(A)(2) when there is evidence of a hostile demonstration or an overt act on the part of the victim at the time of the offense. Consequently, evidence of the victim's character is not appropriate, except when the defendant is claiming self-defense against an aggressor victim ....”

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

2. “The Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Article 1, § 16 of the Louisiana Constitution guarantee a criminal defendant the meaningful opportunity to present a complete defense. State v. Dressner, 2008-1366 (La. 7/6/10), 45 So.3d 127 , 137, cert. denied , 562 U.S. 1271 , 131 S.Ct. 1605 , 179 L.Ed.2d 500 (2011) ; State v. Stokes, 2014-1562 (La. App. 1st Cir. 6/17/15), 175 So.3d 419 , 423. The Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment provides that”

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

3. “the circumstances indicate that because of a mental disease or mental defect the offender was incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong with reference to the conduct in question.”

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