State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

33 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The issue with respect to whether the defendant was the person who committed the act charged is, except where admitted, an issue in every criminal case. The existence of this issue does not, in and of itself, authorize evidence of other crimes. The fact that here defendant testified and denied the April 28th sale and also denied he had met or known agent Cut-right prior to defendant’s arrest on May 16, 1967, did not open the floodgates to evidence that on prior occasions defendant illegally sold amphetamines, under the guise of bolstering the agent’s identification testimony of defendant.””

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

2. ““We can find no justifiable reason for the admission in evidence of the separate and distinct sale of marijuana by defendant to James Pollard on June 14, 1967. . Proof of the separate and distinct sale on June 14 did not tend to prove any material fact in issue concerning the sale on July 12th. It was not relevant to prove the identity of defendant.””

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