State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “may test the trustworthiness of proffered character evidence by requiring [the proponent of the evidence] to establish preliminarily that the witnesses are aware of the [person’s] reputation for a specific pertinent character trait and not simply aware of his ... reputation in general, and that the witnesses’ knowledge of the ... character trait is representative of the community’s collective judgment. The trial court’s determinations on these foundation issues will be reviewable only for an abuse of discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Kalex