State v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

33 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that the person acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Of Iowa Vs. Calvin Clarence Nelson, Jr. · State v. Matlock

2. “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.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Matlock · In Re JAL

3. “[T]he public policy for excluding bad-acts evidence "is founded not on a belief that the evidence is irrelevant, but rather on a fear that juries will tend to give it excessive weight, and on a fundamental sense that no one should be convicted of a crime based on his or her previous misdeeds."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Cox · State v. Reynolds