Leggett v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 12 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The present petition states that Leggett, in connection with his plea of insanity, was sent by the court to the State Hospital for a medical examination. The petition charges that, although the Hospital’s report reflected the opinion of the examining medical staff, not all the members of the staff were called as witnesses at the trial. This omission, it is said, deprived Leggett of his constitutional right to be confronted with the witnesses- against him. U. S. Constitution, Amendment 6, Ark. Constitution, Article 2, Section 10. This contention is foreclosed by our affirmance of the original judgment. This same argument was made upon the first appeal and was found to be without merit. The issue was not specifically mentioned in the opinion, for it was necessary to examine dozens of objections in the record, and, as is our practice, we limited our discussion to what were considered. to be the appellant’s strongest points. The Opinion explained, however, that we had examined the entire record and had considered all the issues raised.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nail v. State