State v. Hill’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. “The standard to be applied, on a case-by-case basis, in determining whether the testing procedures have been performed substantially according to methods approved by the Department, is whether the defect prejudices the defendant by raising a legitimate question regarding the authenticity or scientific reliability of the test results.”

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