State v. Werner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Most importantly, the trial justice went beyond the scope of concerns brought to his attention by [the] defendant and said authoritatively that eyewitness ‘identification must be viewed with great caution.’ The trial justice’s instructions had much of the same effect on the jury as listening to an expert. Juries give great weight to what a trial justice says, so by alerting the jury to the inherent problems with eyewitness identifications, the jury was sufficiently reminded to use common sense to determine what evidence to believe and what to question.” Id. at 1102-03 .”

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

2. ““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 fact or opinion.””

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