153 Ind. App. 430 - Sargent v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Thus, the issue is not one of overturning a secrecy requirement but of choosing which technique for revealing the contents of statements made to the grand jury by the prosecution witness is more practical. The method of calling in a member of the grand jury is a clumsy, expensive, time-consuming, unreliable method for discovering such pretrial statements of the witness. The grand juror would have to be subpoenaed and then testify from memory concerning the witness’ testimony before the grand jury given months, sometimes years, before the trial. The availability of this statutory procedure is not a reason to deny the use of the much simpler, cheaper, more reliable technique of requiring the prosecutor to produce the transcript of the prosecuting witness’ testimony before the grand jury for use by the defendant in cross examination and impeachment of the witness.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 154 Ind. App. 182 - Matthew v. State

2. ““. • . The trial court must conduct a hearing on the conflicting claims of the parties to resolve this issue.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 154 Ind. App. 164 - Auer v. State