State v. Lora.’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. “[I]mpact evidence is 'generally considered irrelevant if offered during the guilt phase of a trial unless relevant to a proper purpose, such as to impeach a victim's credibility or establish an element of the crime at issue[.]'”

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

2. “The jury's verdict rested on it accepting the CW's account as true, and the erroneously admitted testimony was specifically used to bolster the credibility of her account.”

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

3. “the manner in which [an erroneous admission] was presented by the DPA, and the reliance upon it during closing argument”

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