Carter v. State’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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “so prejudicial to the rights of a defendant as to make a fair trial impossible.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Oldham v. State · Trice v. State

2. “... based on the entire context of the expert’s testimony that she came close to, but did not cross the line into impermissible Rule 704(b) vouching. Although her statements that autistic children find it difficult to deliberately deceive others may have been persuasive, the jury still had to draw its own inference as to whether [the victim’s] story was an accurate account.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. State · Bradford v. State

3. “If scientific, technical, or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education, may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Miller v. State · Curtis v. State