State v. Small’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “courts should consider the following four additional factors: 1. the time of the declaration and the party to whom it was made; 2. the existence of corroborating evidence in the case; 3. whether the declaration is inherently inconsistent with the accused's guilt; and 4. whether at the time of the incriminating statement the declarant had any probable motive to falsify.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Maine v. Aubrey Armstrong