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← 915 NE2D 1040 - Lovitt v. State

Lovitt v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jones v. State · Stephenson v. State · Bryant v. State · Brand v. State · Zanders v. State

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

  1. “We will afford a trial court's decision to exclude evidence great deference on appeal, and will reverse only for a manifest abuse of discretion that denies the defendant a fair trial. An abuse of discretion occurs when a decision is clearly against the logic and effect of the facts and cireumstances before the trial court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “an offender who has personal use quantities of controlled substance(s) on his or her person or even loose in the vehicle.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “an offender who uses his or her vehicle to facilitate ... delivery ... of a controlled substance.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.