State v. Lazarone’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The next and last bill was to the act of the court in choosing as interpreter a person who had been summoned as a witness for the state, and had contributed to a fund for the prosecution of the accused. This alone is sufficient to vitiate the verdict. The person chosen to interpret into English testimony given in a tongue not understood by jury, court, or counsel must be absolutely disinterested, unprejudiced, and unbiased; and the mind of a person who has contributed towards a fund for the prosecution of an accused can hardly be said to be in that condition.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 827 So. 2d 1248 - State v. Nguyen

2. ““While the testimony, as reduced to writing by the coroner, may be the most reliable evidence of what that testimony was, it is not the best evidence in the sense of 'the rule of best evidence; or, in other words, the testimony of the other persons who were present when the testimony was given, and who heard and remembered it, is not secondary evidence, but is primary evidence; and, as such, is equally admissible with the written report of the testimony. 30 Am. & Eng. Enc. p. 1100; State v. Farrier, 114 La. 579 , 38 South. 460 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rush v. Town of Farmerville