State v. Waldschmidt’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'reasonable inferences based on the evidence.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Ervin · State v. Willis

2. “No party may assign as error the giving or failure to give an instruction . . . unless the party objects thereto before the jury retires . . . unless the instruction or the failure to give an instruction is clearly erroneous.”

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

3. “Unpreserved instructional issues that are not clearly erroneous may not be aggregated in a cumulative error analysis because K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 22-3414[3] limits a party's ability to claim them as error.”

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