Clemmons v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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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. ““The fourth assignment of error, which complains of the refusal of the trial court to grant defendant a new trial because of newly discovered evidence, cannot be sustained. “The record shows that the defendant knew of the alleged newly discovered evidence prior to the trial and made no effort to produce said evidence on the trial; his only excuse for not having the witness’ testimony being that the matter had ‘slipped’ his memory. In this state of the record it cannot be held that the trial judge abused' his discretion in refusing to grant a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. American Law Book Co. v. Chester