People v. Dearstyne’s Empirical Analysis

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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. “Although defendant submitted affidavits-some of which were unsworn-ex-plaining how such expert testimony may have been helpful at trial, he failed to establish that the experts were necessary for him to succeed on his CPL 440.10 motion, how the testimony of some of the experts would show that he received ineffective assistance of counsel or that extraordinary circumstances exist here warranting the expenditure of additional public funds.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dearstyne v. Mazzuca