State v. Lemos’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[b]ecause this was a case that turned on the credibility of the victim and the accused, we [were] unable to say that the improper admission of this evidence was harmless error. *** The specific testimony that defendant objected to was that, according to what Taryn allegedly told the victim, defendant and Tar-yn had not been having sex with each other, and defendant had been complaining about this fact to Taryn. Given that the alleged sexual assault occurred during this period, the admission of this hearsay may well have affected the jury’s evaluation of the evidence.” Id. (Emphasis added.)”

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