Orndorff v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) appears to have been discovered subsequent to the trial; (2) could not have been secured for use at the trial in the exercise of reasonable diligence by the movant; (3) is not merely cumulative, corroborative or collateral; and (4) is material, and such as should produce opposite results on the merits at another trial.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carpitcher v. Com. · Avent v. Com.

2. “is a matter submitted to the sound discretion of the circuit court and will be granted only under unusual circumstances after particular care and caution has been given to the evidence presented.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Avent v. Com. · Orndorff v. Com.

3. “), a mental illness she contends would serve as the basis for a defense of insanity if accepted by the jury. [2] In this appeal, we consider whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the circuit court properly denied Orndorff's motion for a new trial on the ground that she had not met her burden of showing that this after-discovered evidence was”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Orndorff v. Com.