State v. Skaug’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 30 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* * * in the presence of such enormous and clearly proven guilt we will not pause to speculate as to whether, if evidence of other offenses had been omitted the jury might have returned a verdict carrying a lesser penalty. Section 11266 N.C.L. prevents a reversal.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. McKay · State v. Blackwell

2. “"The statute (sec. 11266 N.C.L.) places the burden on the appellant to show an error of the kind authorizing this court to set aside the judgment. As we said in State v. Williams, 47 Nev. 279 -285, 220 P. 555 , 557: `From a reading of this statute it must not only appear that the trial court erred, but it must appear affirmatively that the error resulted in a miscarriage of justice, or actually prejudiced the defendant. In other words, we can indulge in no presumption favorable to the defendant. Such is the clear, unequivocal, unambiguous provision of the statute.' State v. Willberg, 45 Nev. 183 , 200 P. 475 , and State v. Ramage, 51 Nev. 82 , 269 P. 489 , are to the same effect."”

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