Keffer v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"* * * `Where the answer of the juror is fairly susceptible of a construction consistent with his impartiality, the challenging party, if he claims that a different construction should be put upon it, should follow up his inquiries so as to elicit the real facts; and he cannot reasonably require that the juror shall be excluded on the ground that the examination, which he has chosen to leave imperfect, does not exclude all inference of bias.' * * *"”

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

2. ““(a) After the jury has been impaneled and sworn, the trial shall proceed in the following order: * * * * * * “(Hi) The state must first produce its evidence; the defendant will then produce his evidence; “(iv) The state will then be confined to rebutting evidence unless the court, for good reasons, in furtherance of justice, shall permit it to offer evidence in chief.””

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

3. ““Where a party desires the testimony of a witness not within the jurisdiction of the court, he must take the deposition of the witness, for he cannot have compulsory process to compel attendance, and he has no right to have a continuance, upon the ground that the witness has promised to attend, and will attend at a future term.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Chapman v. First National Bank