Strader v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 22 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is true the excluded testimony was not put in the bill of exceptions, and the general rule is that error cannot be assigned upon the exclusion of evidence unless the bill of exceptions shows what the witness’s answers would have been if permitted, and shows that they would have been competent and material. But this rule does not apply where the Trial Judge ‘rules out an entire line of competent evidence, or refuses to hear any examination thereon,’ or when he holds a witness incompetent and refuses to hear him at all.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 2 Tenn. Crim. App. 18 - Bray v. State

2. “"Good character is a flower of the slow growth of years and does not change overnight. `The natural and reasonable inference is that a man will generally act in accordance with his character. It is the law of his life'. Keith v. State, 127 Tenn. 40, 44 , 152 S.W. 1029 , 1030."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Morrison v. State

3. “"The defendant was before the court not merely as a witness, but as the accused, and proof of character was important, not only to illustrate his credibility as a witness, but as a fact to be considered on the question of his guilt or innocence." (Emphasis ours.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Morrison v. State