Johnson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A business record is admissible [in a criminal trial] under the Statute [10 Del.C. § 4310] if ‘in the opinion of the court’ such admission is justified by the sources of information and the method and time of preparation. This gives the trial judge a breadth of discretion which will not generally be disturbed on appeal.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. McNally v. Eckman · Henson v. State

2. ““§ 4310. Business records as competent evidence “(a) The term ‘business’ includes every kind of business, profession, occupation, calling, or operation of institutions, whether carried on for profit or not. A record of an act, condition or event, shall, in so far as relevant, be competent evidence if the custodian or other qualified witness testifies to its identity and the mode of its preparation, and if it was made in the regular course of business, at or near the time of act, condition or event, and if, in the opinion of the court, the sources of information, method and time of preparation were such as to justify its admission.””

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