Harris v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In connection with the first contention, it is argued that since Dearing was not produced at the trial by the commonwealth, appellant was denied the right granted under Amendment VI to the Constitution of the United States and Section XI of the Constitution of Kentucky to meet his accusers face to face in a criminal trial. At the outset we invite attention to the fact that these provisions of neither constitution speak of accusers. The federal constitution grants the right to the accused ‘to be confronted with the witnesses against him,’ and the state constitution guarantees to him the privilege to ‘meet the witnesses face to face.’ The main purpose of confrontation is to insure the right of cross-examination and protect the accused from conviction by means of ex parte testimony of affidavits given in his absence. 14 Am.Jur. Criminal Law, Section 176. It is a rule concerned with the method by which evidence is produced during trial. In Aycock v. United States, 9 Cir., 62 F.2d 612, 613 , certiorari denied 289 U.S. 734 , S3 S.Ct. 595, 77 L. Ed. 1482 , it is written: “ ‘The constitutional right of the defendants to be confronted by the witnesses in the trial of a criminal case imposes no obligation on the government to call any specific persons as witnesses.’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bailey · Flatt v. Commonwealth