State v. Dehart’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

40 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The evidence furnished by the confession obviously established the corpus delicti, as well as defendant’s guilt, and we shall not labor the point. While, without the confession, defendant would doubtless have been entitled to a directed verdict, evidence as to the location and condition of the body, and expert testimony that the condition of the bones was consistent with buckshot wounds inflicted at close range, sufficiently corroborated the confession.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bannister · Potman v. State

2. “Such an impression would not be prejudicial to defendant. The thing that was prejudicial to defendant was the confession which is many times more conclusive than any implication that could be ■drawn from the fact of the lie detector test. The jury was entitled to conclude that the confession was trustworthy and believable. 8 N. W. 2d at 362 .”

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