State v. . Davis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The omission of any reference to the testimony of the defendant’s witness (his wife) from the qualifying words applied to the testimony of the defendant himself may have been unintentional, an oversight, or even a ‘lapsus linguae,’ nevertheless, the omission is clearly apparent from the record . . . there must be a new trial.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 59 N.C. App. 1 - State v. Pryor