State v. Leroy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Testimony otherwise relevant does not become incompetent because it may tend incidentally to show that the accused has committed another crime. [Citing cases].””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Corcoran · State v. Macleod

2. ““The case was tried on circumstantial evidence, and the purpose of this testimony was to fix the whereabouts of the appellant about the time the Plemmons house was entered. In short, its purpose was to show that the appellant was in the vicinity and had the opportunity to commit the crime charged. The matter of the burglary, the key, the knives and the wedge, tended to identify and locate him. If the appellant left a trail of crime behind him, the misfortune is his, and that fact cannot defeat the right of the state to connect him with the crime charged by proofs of all relevant circumstances. . . . Testimony otherwise relevant does not become incompetent because it may tend incidentally to show that the accused has committed another crime.””

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