State v. Fernandes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The necessity for the existence of such an exception [to the hearsay rule] is found in the practically unendurable inconvenience of summoning public officers from their posts on the innumerable occasions when their *Page 387 official doings or records are to be proved in litigation'; and the general trustworthiness of such evidence is found in the circumstances under which the statements are made.”

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

2. “[w]e feel that state's exhibit . . . Insofar as it was a record authorized to be kept by the commissioner under the statute, was, being properly certified, admissible in evidence as to the facts therein stated.”

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