People v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “consistent, harmonious and sensible effect to all of its parts,”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Owens · People v. Chavez

2. “Hearsay declarations made by a defendant in his own favor are generally not admissible for the defense. A self-serving declaration is excluded because there is nothing to guarantee its testimonial truthworthiness. If such evidence were admissible, the door would be thrown open to obvious abuse; an accused could create evidence for himself by making exculpatory statements for subsequent use at his trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Zubiate

3. “When interpreting a statute, we endeavor to give effect to the legislative intent.... To discern the legislative intent, we look to the statute's language and give its words and phrases their plain and ordinary meaning.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Montante