State v. White’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. “Given the Douglas court went directly to the issue of prejudicial conduct, without deciding the issue, we will assume for the purposes of this opinion the use of the word ridiculous is outside the wide latitude allowed prosecutors during closing argument.”

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

2. “'forbids the doing of an act in terms so vague that persons of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application.' [Citations omitted.].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 56 Kan. App. 2d 1293 - State v. Johnson

3. “the prosecutor's remarks, standing alone, would have been reversible error had the jury not been instructed to disregard it”

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