Milligan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “While the defense did acknowledge that 'late reporting' would be made an issue in its case and would be mentioned in its opening, 'late reporting’ bore no reasonable relationship to an issue or ultimate fact to be proved in the State's case-in-chief.”); Cobb v. State, Del. Supr., 765 A.2d 1252, 1254-55 (2001) (applying Milligan, 761 A.2d at 8 ); see also Gattis, 637 A.2d at 818 (”

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

2. “Any conclusion that the ‘late reporting theory’ was so ‘inextricably intertwined’ with the later bad acts that evidence of those later bad acts had to be admitted in order to meet the ‘late reporting’ defense related to the admissibility of rebuttal evidence and should not have been reached before the State’s case-in-chief. 9”

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