State v. Seamans’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When a probation-violation inquiry turns on a determination of credibility, * * * and the hearing justice, after considering all the evidence, accepts one version of events for plausible reasons stated and rationally rejects another version, we can safely conclude that the hearing justice did not act unreasonably or arbitrarily in finding that a probation violation has occurred.” State v. Sylvia, 871 A.2d 954, 957 (R.I.2005) (quoting State v. Rioux, 708 A.2d 895, 898 (R.I.1998)).”

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

2. “Challenges to a trial justice's credibility determinations typically are unavailing in this Court because the assessment of witness credibility 'in a probation violation hearing is a function of the [trial] justice, not this Court.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Michael D'Amico

3. “It is not ordinarily the role of this Court to second-guess credibility assessments in a probation violation hearing.”

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