State v. Hampton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) The declarant must be dead at the time of the trial; (2) the statement is admissible only in the prosecution of a criminal homicide; (3) the declarant must be the victim of the homicide; (4) the statement must concern the cause or the circumstances of the death; and (5) the declarant must have made the statement under the belief that death was imminent. 9”

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

2. “Statement Under Belief of Impending Death. — In a prosecution for homicide, a statement made by the victim while believing that the declarant’s death was imminent and concerning the cause or circumstances of what the declarant believed to be impending death.”

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