State v. Briggs’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]hen evidence ⅜ * * may nonetheless be helpful to [the] defendant's effective cross-examination of a witness, a defendant’s -right to that evidence arises from the right of confrontation, and thus becomes an issue ‘only when a defendant is improperly denied the ability to confront and to effectively cross-examine an adverse witness at trial,’”

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

2. “a defendant must show that `there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.'”

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

3. “the trial justice is in the best position to determine whether any harm resulted from noncompliance with discovery motions * * *.”

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