State v. Maupin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 19 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`The right to offer the testimony of witnesses, and to compel their attendance, if necessary, is in plain terms the right to present a defense.... This right is a fundamental element of due process of law.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Atsbeha · State v. Ayala

2. “`[A] criminal defendant has no constitutional right to have irrelevant evidence admitted in his or her defense.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Thomas · State v. Atsbeha

3. “We have potentially a 24-hour period after the noticing of the absence of Tricna, in which she may very well have been alive. Part of the State's burden, of course, is to prove death by criminal means or by a criminal agency. That is a matter that will have to be argued to the jury. But if in fact [Brittain's testimony] would show that she was alive, I would not find that relevant to the charge in this particular case. It still, in the Court's judgment, would be evidence upon which the jury would be asked to speculate.”

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