Gonzalez v. State’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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The Constitution does not guarantee an accused person against the legitimate consequences of his own wrongful acts. . . . [I]f [a defendant] voluntarily keeps the witnesses away, he cannot insist on his [Sixth Amendment] privilege. If, therefore, when absent by his procurement, their evidence is supplied in some lawful way, he is in no condition to assert that his constitutional rights have been violated.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Edwards · People v. Vasquez

2. ““A defendant whose wrongful act renders a witness unavailable for trial benefits from his conduct if he can use the witness’s unavailability to exclude otherwise admissible hearsay statements. This is true whether or not the defendant specifically intended to prevent the witness from testifying at the time he committed the act that rendered the witness unavailable.” Gonzalez, 155 S.W.3d at 611 . 9”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Vasquez · 362 Ill. App. 3d 335 - People v. Melchor

3. “In future eases, we encourage the trial courts to consider the forfeiture issue at the time they are confronted with a Confrontation Clause objection. When making its forfeiture determination, a court should consider the evidence admitted up to that point in the proceeding and, if necessary, hold a hearing outside the presence of the jury to take additional evidence. If there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate forfeiture, the court should admit the evidence over the defendant’s objection and set forth on the record its factual findings that support a forfeiture to allow for a meaningful appellate review of the forfeiture issue.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 141 F. Supp. 3d 786 - United States v. Ledbetter