Whitman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “cites no authority to support his argument that adverse evidence must be excluded because its admission might impact a defendant’s decision to testify. To the contrary, even if [Monroe] was forced to choose between asserting a defense based upon his own testimony or remaining silent, that is a choice that is inherent in any defendant’s decision whether to testify or not, and that does not violate a defendant’s constitutional rights.”

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