State v. Williams.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The admissibility of evidence requires different standards of review depending on the particular rule of evidence at issue. When application of a particular evidentiary rule can yield only one correct result, the proper standard for appellate review is the right/wrong standard. The traditional abuse of discretion standard should be applied in the case of those rules 5 NOT FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST'S HAWAI#I REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER of evidence that require a 'judgment call' on the part of the trial court.”

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

2. “about the following seven acts: (1) doing time for the crime of murder in California; (2) that he did hard time in California; (3) that he knew how to fight because of the time he spent in jail and that he had to learn to fight to survive; (4) that he knew about gang- bangers and gang-members; (5) that he had experience with violence from spending time in jail; (6) that he”

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

3. “without regard to whether timely objection was made, if there is a reasonable possibility that the error contributed to the defendant's conviction, i.e., that the erroneous jury instruction was not harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Faufata