Denison v. Anchorage’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he test of relevance has never required that the evidence offered be conclusive of the point [ ] sought to be established. All that is required for evidence to be relevant is that it render the proposition for which it is offered more probable than it would otherwise have been. “Any more stringent requirement is unworkable and unrealistic.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. McDonald · Marsingill v. O'MALLEY

2. “Although relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thayer v. Municipality of Anchorage · Fuenning v. SUPER. CT. IN AND FOR CTY. OF MARICOPA

3. “Relevant evidence means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”

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