State v. Donahue’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It cannot be doubted that the victims’ descriptions of the shoes, hat and gun, and their in-court identification of these exhibits strongly corroborated their identification of the defendant. The exhibits were relevant and of probative value. . . . The shoes corroborated the victims’ identification of Garrett [the codefendant] as one of the assailants and in turn added credence to their identification of the defendant as another assailant. . . (p. 356.)”

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

2. ““Admissibility of physical evidence is within the sound discretion of the trial court and is to be determined by the court on the basis of its relevance, connection with the accused and the crime charged.” (Syl. 3.)”

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