State v. Bendo’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Under the provisions of the Constitutions of the United States and this State, every accused is entitled to, and is guaranteed, a fair trial, and to deny his counsel a pre-trial inspection of [the] accused’s written confession is, in our opinion, tantamount to depriving such accused of a fair trial, and is in violation of his constitutional rights.””

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

2. “these statements were not obtained while the defendants were in the actual custody of the police, and would thus not be regarded as a confession in the traditional sense of the word, the fact remains that they are inculpatory as * * * defined and therefore within the Dorsey rule [State v. Dorsey, 207 La. 928 , 22 So.2d 273 (1945)].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 312 So. 2d 306 - State v. Hammler

3. “* * * [d]efense counsel into the impression that the state had no statement * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 310 So. 2d 826 - State v. Boothe