State v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “fall outside the wide latitude afforded prosecutors to conduct the State's case and attempt to obtain a conviction in a manner that does not offend the defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial.”

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

2. “Under the invited error doctrine, a litigant may not invite error and then complain of that same error on appeal.”

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

3. “stressed that relevance is a generally low threshold.”

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