Otte v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If any defendant held in jail on an indictment or an affidavit shall move for an early trial, he shall be discharged if not brought to trial within seventy (70) calendar days from the date of such motion, except where a continuance within said period is had on his motion, or the delay is otherwise caused by his act, or where there was not sufficient time to try him during such seventy (70) calendar days because of the congestion of the court calendar.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas King v. State of Indiana · Patrick Austin v. State of Indiana

2. “Criminal Rule 4(D) provides: If when application is made for discharge of a defendant under this rule, the court be satisfied that there is evidence for the state, which cannot then be had, that reasonable effort has been made to procure the same and there is just ground to believe that such evidence can be had within ninety (90) days, the cause may be continued, and the prisoner remanded or admitted to bail; and if he be not brought to trial by the state within such additional ninety (90) days, he shall then be discharged.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Michael Miller v. State of Indiana · Patrick Austin v. State of Indiana

3. “As this court has previously observed, the reactions and behaviors of domestic violence victims are not commonly understood by laypersons. Odom v. State , 711 N.E.2d 71 , 75 (Ind. Ct. App. 1999), trans. denied . Consistent with this view, this court has endorsed the use of expert testimony about domestic abuse/battered woman syndrome to explain witness recantation. See id. at 72 n.2, 77 (domestic abuse); Carnahan v. State , 681 N.E.2d 1164 , 1166-68 (Ind. Ct. App. 1997) (battered woman syndrome); see also Iqbal , 805 N.E.2d at 409-10 (affirming use of expert testimony to "educate[ ] the jury on the complexity of behavior of domestic violence victims")[.] [T]estimony regarding a victim's propensity to recant in this context simply provides the jury with information outside its experience, permitting it to assess credibility based upon a more complete understanding of all potential factors at issue.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Christopher Barnes v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)