State v. Hemminger’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The well-established rule in this jurisdiction is that the granting or denial of continuance in a criminal prosecution is largely within the sound discretion of the district court, and its ruling will not be disturbed in the absence of a showing that there has been an abuse of discretion which has prejudiced the defendant’s substantial rights. . . .””

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

2. ““Where, as here, the defendant makes no request for the attendance of an out of state witness and makes no effort to comply with statutory requirements by showing such witness would be material, he cannot successfully claim that he was denied compulsory process (citing cases).” (p. 871.)”

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