State v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 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. “[I]f we are to decide the question by the established rules of the common law, there could not be a dissenting voice. For, notwithstanding the death of the witness, and whatever the respectability of the court taking the depositions, the solemnity of the occasion and the weight of the testimony, such depositions are ex parte, and, therefore, utterly incompetent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crawford v. Washington

2. “prosecutions be carried on to the conviction of the accused, by witnesses confronted by him, and subjected to his personal examination.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crawford v. Washington

3. “has not . . . been plainly adjudged, even in the English cases”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crawford v. Washington