State v. Milum’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. ““Proof of the genuineness of a letter may be established when the contents themselves reveal knowledge peculiarly referable to a certain person or the contents are of such nature that the letter could not have passed between persons other than the purported writer and the person to whom it was delivered. [Citations omitted.] For that matter, any relevant writing may be admitted when, from its contents or other circumstances in evidence, it is reasonably inferable that the author is the person sought to be charged. Whether or not the authenticity of a writing is sufficiently established to render it admissible in evidence is a matter largely within the discretion of the trial court.” (p. 198.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Shultz

2. ““. . . the name of the witness, and, if known, his residence, a statement of his expected testimony and the basis of such expectation, a statement that the aiEant believes it to be true, and the efforts which have been made to procure his attendance or deposition. . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jackson v. State

3. “the contents themselves reveal knowledge peculiarly referable to a certain person or the contents are of such nature that the letter could not have passed between persons other than the purported writer and the person to whom it was delivered.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. – State v. Jenkins –