State v. Diefenderfer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

33 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"There is nothing Kafkaesque or arbitrary about the requirement that evidentiary objections be sufficiently focused and specific. The purpose of the requirement is to afford trial justices and opposing counsel the opportunity to grapple in the first instance with particular arguments based on the law of evidence in the vital context of the then-ongoing trial." Diefenderfer , 970 A.2d at 30 n.33.”

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

2. “an evidentiary objection must be 'sufficiently focused so as to call the trial justice's attention to the basis for said objection * * *.'”

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