State v. Braun’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The credibility of a witness may be attacked or supported by evidence in the form of opinion or reputation, but subject to these limitations: (1) the evidence may refer only to character for truthfulness or untruthfulness, and (2) evidence of truthful character is admissible only after the character of the witness for truthfulness has been attacked by opinion or reputation evidence or otherwise.”

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

2. “testimony that there is a psychological and behavioral profile of the typical child sexual abuse victim, and the victim conformed to the profile and therefore had been abused; and [2] testimony that, based on the experts subjective “credibility appraisal” of the child during an interview the child had truthfully described the abuse and therefore had been abused.”

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

3. “from our examination of the record, we must be able to say that it should have been obvious to the trial court that it was committing error.”

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