State v. Perez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “when, although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the basis of the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hasim Munir · State v. Barros

2. “[a] trial justice is vested with the inherent authority to sequester witnesses during trial testimony for the purpose of preventing that witness from shaping his or her testimony to conform to that of other witnesses.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Madlyn B.In re Luke B.

3. “accord deference to the trial justice's findings of historical fact unless those findings are clearly erroneous.”

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