State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 20 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The final factor in our harmless error analysis is the strength of the ‘other evidence’ against Wright * * *.”). . Wren did not testify. The focus of his defense was that Antonio Washington and Branch were the only two shooters, and that their testimony to the contrary was false. . Before the shootings, two witnesses heard Wren threaten to”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Wren

2. “When determining whether the jury’s verdict was surely unattributable to an error, we examine the record as a whole. In doing so, we consider the manner in which the evidence was presented, whether the evidence was highly persuasive, whether it was used in closing argument, and whether it was effectively countered by the defense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Hawes v. State

3. “to establish or prove past events potentially relevant to later criminal prosecution.”

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