State v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis

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2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a party may introduce a prior inconsistent statement to impeach his own witness only if the witness gives testimony prejudicial to the party,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rhodes v. Harwood