State v. Needs’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 76 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[Affidavits indicating prejudice or an absence of prejudice in the community where the defendant was tried, testimony of the jurors at voir dire as to whether they had formed an opinion of the defendant’s guilt or innocence based upon adverse pretrial publicity, whether the defendant challenged for cause any of the jurors finally selected, the nature and content of the pretrial publicity, and the amount of time elapsed from the time of the pretrial publicity to the trial itself. Publicity by itself does not require a change of venue.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bainbridge · State v. Jones

2. “"Evidence of other crimes is admissible when relevant to prove: (1) motive, (2) intent, (3) the absence of mistake or accident, (4) a common scheme or plan embracing the commission of two or more crimes so related to each other that proof of one tends to establish the other, (5) the identity of the person charged with the commission of the crime on trial, and (6) other similar issues."”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sharp · State v. Winkler

3. “[i]t was not incumbent upon the trial judge to find jurors who were totally ignorant of the facts and issues involved in this case.”

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