State v. O'BRIEN’s Empirical Analysis

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46 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Whenever a certified copy of the chart or record of any hospital in this state, signed by the director, assistant director, superintendent or secretary-treasurer of the board of administrators of the hospital in question, is offered in evidence in any court of competent jurisdiction, it shall be received in evidence by such court as prima facie proof of its contents, provided that the party against whom the record is sought to be used may summon and examine those making the original of said record as witnesses under cross-examination.”

   9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Commitment of Malvo · State v. Berluchaux

2. “* * * In State v. Freeman, 245 La. 665 , 160 So.2d 571 , this Court rejected a similar contention and quoted from Scher v. United States, 305 U.S. 251 , 59 S.Ct. 174 , 83 L.Ed. 151 , wherein it is declared, “ * * * public policy forbids disclosure of an informer’s identity unless essential to the defense * * No showing has been made in this case that the informer’s identity was material and essential to appellant’s defense. (State v. O’Brien, 255 La. 704 , 232 So.2d 484 [1970]).”

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