Sampson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[A], defendant must prove: (1) that the prosecution either introduced or failed to correct false testimony; (2) that, the false or perjured testimony was given at trial; (3) that the prosecution knew-the perjured testimony was false; (4) that the testimony was .‘material’; and (5) that the defendant has not waived the claim by failing to raise it at trial if he had reason to know of the falsity of the subject testimony.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Bismarck v. Sokalski

2. “[cjlerical mistakes in judgments, orders or other parts of the record and errors in the record arising from oversight or omission may be corrected by the court at any time and after such notice, if any, as the court orders.”

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

3. “An analysis focusing on mere outcome determination without attention to whether the result of the proceeding was fundamentally unfair or unreliable, is defective.”

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