Topic: cases should be decided on the narrowest possible ground. · Go Syfert
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6 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 114 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from State v. Blalock.

#Case FlagCanonical passage Citers
1 State v. Blalock Anchor
wisctapp · 1989
green “cases should be decided on the narrowest possible ground.” 74
2 State v. Blalock
wisctapp · 1989
green “cases should be decided on the narrowest possible ground” 18
3 State v. Avery
wis · 2013
green “a reasonable probability of a different result exists if there is a reasonable probability that a jury, looking at both the old and the new evidence, would have a reasonable doubt as to the defendant's guilt.” 12
4 State v. Blalock
wisctapp · 1989
green “clases should be decided on the narrowest possible ground.” 4
5 Gross v. Hoffman
wis · 1938
green “cases should be decided on the narrowest possible ground” 3
6 Gross v. Hoffman
wis · 1938
green “cases should be decided on the narrowest possible ground.” 3

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