State v. Tassin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 51 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A specific intent to kill can be inferred from someone pointing a gun at close range and pulling the trigger.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 622 So. 2d 198 - State v. Bourque · 258 So. 3d 708 - State v. Thomas

2. “Evidence of conviction of crime, but not of arrest, indictment or prosecution, is admissible for the purpose of impeaching the credibility of the witness, but before evidence of such former conviction can be adduced from any other source than the witness whose credibility is to be impeached, he must have been questioned on cross-examination as to such conviction, and have failed distinctly to admit the same; and no witness, whether he be defendant or not, can be asked on cross-examination whether or not he has ever been indicted or arrested, and can only be questioned as to conviction, and as provided herein.”

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

3. “A defendant places his credibility at issue when he takes the stand. Like any other witness, his credibility can be impeached by showing that his general reputation for truth or moral character is bad, that he ‘is biased, has an interest, ... has been corrupted’, or that he has previously been convicted of a crime. State v. Nash, 475 So.2d 752 (La.1985). [Footnotes omitted.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 670 So. 2d 624 - State v. Clark