People v. Hobson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 14 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We think,” the court said, “that the ends of justice might generally be better subserved if all the members of the court who heard the case on the trial should sit on the motion for a new trial; but this is not a statutory right or obligation, and it would be going too far if we were to avoid the action of a court legally constituted, and having full jurisdiction of the subject, merely upon the suggestion that it was not so constituted as to the particular members as more probably to insure an intelligent and satisfactory decision. Cases might arise where this point alone, or in connection with other matters, would entitle a party to a new trial, or to a hearing of his motion before the justices presiding on the trial; but in the absence of a showing of some special cause, we think this single circumstance does not constitute a ground of reversal of the judgment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Freeman v. United States