State v. Shumaker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If any business * * * or any department or agency of government, in the regular course of business or activity has kept or recorded any memorandum, writing, entry, print, representation or combination thereof, of any act, transaction, occurrence or event, and in the regular course of business has caused any or all of the same to be recorded, copied or reproduced by any photographic, photostatic * * * or other process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original, the original may be destroyed in the regular course of business * * *. Such reproduction, when satisfactorily identified, is as admissible in evidence as the original itself in any judicial or administrative proceeding whether the original is in existence or not * * (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 5 N.C. App. 570 - Jones v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

2. ““Enough appears in the evidence in this case to show a regular employee of the Wachovia Bank & Trust Company in the usual course of business made the photostats. She identified them. From this showing they were admissible in evidence. * * *””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 5 N.C. App. 570 - Jones v. Metropolitan Life Insurance