McDaniel v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

38 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Every person accused of crime, however guilty he may be, or whatever the nature of the crime charged against him, is entitled to a fair opportunity to prepare and present his defense. It is not the purpose of the law to deny any person accused of crime of the high privilege of establishing his innocence. ■ And whenever it has appeared to this court that the accused was deprived of a reasonable opportunity to explain away his guilt or was forced into trial without reasonable opportunity for preparation, we have not failed to grant a new . trial. Because, however desirable in the interest of justice a speedy trial may be, it is of much greater importance that the law of the land should be administered in an orderly and deliberate way, so that every person arraigned for crime may have, in truth a fair trial.”'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hunt v. Commonwealth