State v. Litton’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
May 2011
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Olano · State v. Tuggle · State v. Harris · State v. Cazes · State v. Sheffield
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of an admission has been introduced in this case. An admission is an acknowledgment by the defendant of certain facts which tend, together with other facts, to establish his guilt. It must be corroborated by other independent evidence to warrant and support a conviction. The Court has permitted admission of this evidence, but it remains your duty to decide if in fact such statements were ever made. If you do not believe it was ever made you should not consider it. If you decide the statement was made, you must then judge the truth of the facts stated.... [Y]ou are the sole judge of the weight that you should give to it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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