Crain v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 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. “The requirement that Miranda warnings be given does not, of course, dispense with the voluntariness inquiry.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. DM v. State · State of Indiana v. DeAngelo Banks

2. “available when a defendant goes beyond merely denying the charged culpability and affirmatively presents a claim of particular contrary intent. When a defendant alleges in trial a particular contrary intent, whether in opening statement, by cross-examination of the State's witnesses, or by presentation of his own case-in-chief, the State may respond by offering evidence of prior crimes, wrongs, or acts to the extent genuinely relevant to prove the defendant's intent at the time of the charged offense.”

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

3. “i.e., that the defendant had engaged in other, uncharged misconduct and that the charged conduct was in conformity with the uncharged misconduct, then the evidence is inadmissible. Id. at 219 . If the evidence passes the first hurdle, however, the court must then”

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