State v. Prince’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “‘[rjelevant 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.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Austin · Walsh v. Chan

2. “The duties of each court reporter shall be to ... write down all the testimony of witnesses in shorthand, together with the proceedings and objections of counsel, exclusive of argument, the rulings of the court, charge to the jury, and any other matter which the court may require the reporter to report.”). 15 . Translated into legal terms, the jury was obviously inquiring whether the state of mind requisite to the commission of first degree assault applied to the result—i.e.,”

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

3. “[a]ll relevant evidence is admissible, except as otherwise provided by the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Hawaii, by statute, by [the Hawaii Rules of Evidence], or by other rules adopted by the supreme court.”

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