People v. Hamel’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “Inasmuch as defendant sought to impeach the complainant’s credibility ..., without an adequate factual basis for believing that the prior complaint was false ..., we see no abuse of [trial court’s] discretion in denying defendant’s motion to permit cross-examination of the complainant about a prior incident of attempted rape.”); People v. Lippert, 138 A.D.2d 770, 771 , 525 N.Y.S.2d 390, 391 (App.Div.3d Dept. 1988) (no abuse of discretion”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cummings v. Burge