State v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Except in cases wherein capital punishment is a permissible sentence, persons indicted for misdemeanors and/or felonies may voluntarily waive their right to be present and may be tried in their absence upon a finding by the court that such person has received notice of his or her right to be present and that a warning was given that the trial would proceed in his or her absence upon a failure to attend court.”

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