State v. Cottrill’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[T]here are other people in the courtroom that know the truth. And when you testified in this courtroom that you had never called [the victim’s] daughter in the early morning hours, you ought to have seen her face.” Id.”

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