754 So. 2d 1232 - Webster v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Wherever 404(b) evidence is offered and there is an objection which is overruled, the objection shall be deemed an invocation of the right to MRE 403 balancing analysis and a limiting instruction. The court shall conduct an MRE 403 analysis and, if the evidence passes that hurdle, give a limiting instruction unless the party objecting to the evidence objects to giving the limiting instruction.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Powell v. State · Gilbert v. State

2. “[W]e hold that harmless error analysis is applicable in cases where the trial court does not sua sponte give the required limiting instruction when M.R.E. 404(b) evidence is admitted.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lofton v. State · 878 So. 2d 913 - Walker v. State

3. “An error is harmless when it is apparent on the face of the record that a fair-minded jury could have arrived at no verdict other than that of guilty.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lofton v. State · 822 So. 2d 1100 - Moore v. State