State v. Coningford’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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. “Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that the person acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, absence of mistake or accident, or to prove that defendant feared imminent bodily harm and that the fear was reasonable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Coningford v. Rhode Island

2. “refers to an act that was intended to cause, and does cause, an offensive contact with or unconsented touching of or trauma upon the body of another, thereby generally resulting in the consummation of the assault.” Coningford, 901 A.2d at 630 (internal quotation marks omitted); accord, e.g., State v. Davis, 120 R.I. 82 , 384 A.2d 1061, 1064 (1978) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Campos-Gomez v. Gonzales

3. “An assault, as ordinarily defined, is any unlawful attempt or offer with force or violence to do a corporal hurt to another, whether from malice or wantonness. The offense may consist also in putting another in fear of violence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Campos-Gomez v. Gonzales