State v. Curit’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Our adversarial system assumes that the truth is most likely to emerge if the attorney for each litigant is held fully responsible for planning the presentation of his [or her] client’s case. Judicial intervention tends to detract from that responsibility and, if excessive or unwise, may disrupt to some extent the attorney’s plan for presenting his [or her] client’s side of the case.”

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

2. “a trial court may intervene “to clarify testimony, save time, or prevent a miscarriage of justice.... As long as the intervention is otherwise within the scope of the court’s authority, the mere fact that it results in the development of additional evidence does not demonstrate that the [court] has exceeded the limits of [its] discretion.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rich v. Fuller

3. “The court may interrogate witnesses, whether called by itself or by a party.”

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