State v. Sheets’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 35 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the U.S. Supreme Court determined that when a witness is unavailable for cross-examination, his or her statements are admissible only if they bear adequate indicia of reliability. Reliability can be inferred, without more, in a case in which the evidence falls within a firmly rooted hearsay exception. In other cases, the evidence must be excluded, absent a showing by the State of particularized guarantees of trustworthiness.”

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

2. “A circumstance in which a declarant admits his or her presence and participation in a crime, but indicates that another was the 'mastermind' or primary actor, is one of the more common fact patterns in which courts hold that a declarant's statements inculpating the defendant may not be admitted at trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Stevens v. People