Meldrum v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"* * * As a foundation for the admission of the evidence of the two other witnesses, the affidavit of the prosecuting attorney was filed, setting forth that in ample time he had procured a subpoena to issue and placed it in the hands of the proper officer for service, who had returned it with the officer's return indorsed thereon `Not found'; that these witnesses had lived at Baggs, the place of the homicide; and that deponent had made diligent search and inquiry to locate and discover their whereabouts, and that he had been unable to do so, and to the best of his information they were somewhere in the state of California, and that their absence from the state and the trial was without his knowledge, consent, or connivance. Upon this ex parte affidavit the court held the foundation sufficiently laid for the admission of the evidence given by the absent witnesses at the former trial."”

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

2. ““The jury must find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that all of the elements constituting the crime charged were present at the time of its commission before they are authorized to return a verdict of guilt, and anything less does not satisfy the law. ’ ’”

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

3. “[t]he evidence fairly supports the finding of the court as to the laying of the foundation, and, that being so,”

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