State v. Ros’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “on the police recording. The trial justice then allowed the state to impeach Huntley by playing portions of the police statement recording to the jury. Later, the trial justice instructed the jury that a witness's prior statements may be considered not only to assess a witness's credibility, but also as substantive evidence. Rule 801(d)(1)(A) provides that a witness's prior inconsistent statement is not hearsay and thus is admissible if the declarant testifies and”

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

2. “Whenever this Court reviews the denial of a motion for judgment of acquittal, we apply the same standard as that applied by the trial justice; namely, we `must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the state, * * * giving full credibility to the state's witnesses, and draw therefrom all reasonable inferences consistent with guilt.'”

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

3. “element of this charge and not possession of heroin, the trial justice erred by instructing the jury that a guilty verdict for either narcotics possession charge would satisfy the”

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