State v. . Alexander’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““His Honor in these rulings was drawing a distinction between facts drawn out in Doctor Hall’s conversation with the defendant, which tended to show the state of defendant’s mind and those which did not. Conversation with one alleged to be insane is, of course, one of the best evidences of the present state of his mind. If, however, there is incorporated in the conversation self-serving declarations which in themselves do not throw any light upon the present condition or the past condition of the man’s mind, then these declarations are not admissible.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Wade