State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The United States Supreme Court has held that the Confrontation Clause guarantees a criminal defendant an adequate opportunity to cross-examine adverse witnesses. Thus, the protections of the Sixth Amendment are not absolute and ensure a right of effective cross-examination, not a right of unrestricted cross-examination.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Haji-Hassan