3 Haw. App. 274 - State v. Bloss’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. “A memorandum or record concerning a matter about which a witness once had knowledge but now has insufficient recollection to enable him to testify fully and accurately, shown to have been made or adopted by the witness when the matter was fresh in his memory and to reflect that knowledge correctly. If admitted, the memorandum or record may be read into evidence but may not itself be received as an exhibit unless offered by an adverse party.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Cervantes

2. “a record concerning Abrigo's OVUII charge of which Officer Ostachuk once had personal knowledge but at trial had insufficient recollection to enable him to testify fully and accurately.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Abrigo.

3. “[made the citation] when the matter was fresh in his memory, in fact contemporaneously, and [where the citation's contents] accurately reflected [the witness's] knowledge of the matter”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. KEOHOKAPU