State v. Manuel’s Empirical Analysis

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18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Despite the [ Crawford ] Court's failure to provide a `comprehensive definition,' we have little difficulty concluding that Stamps' statement to his girlfriend is not `testimonial' in nature. The statement was not made to an agent of the government or to someone engaged in investigating the shooting. The statement thus does not fall within any of the categories of testimonial statements expressly identified in Crawford (prior trial, preliminary-hearing and grand-jury testimony and statements made during police interrogations).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 355 Ill. App. 3d 564 - In Re EH

2. “was simply trying to tell [his girlfriend] what happened ... so that she would have a reason also to get out of the house to go with him to this motel to get away from the police officers.”

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

3. “'primary object1 of the framer's concerns in enacting the confrontation clause.”

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