People v. Stanard’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““We are in accord with the doctrine that, in cases of this nature, in order to make the subject matter of a defendant’s perjury intelligible to the jury, some general background evidence of the nature and structure of the scheme is permissible (citations). “Despite our agreement with the principle that some background testimony is permissible in cases of this nature, we emphasize that, as in People v. Gleason, 285 App.Div. 278, 281-282 , 136 N.Y.S.2d 220 , 224 supra, ‘the introduction of such [background] evidence must be carefully monitored by the trial judge, as it is an accommodation that the general rules of evidence must at times make to the exigencies of the particular instance. * * Every precaution must be taken lest it spill over its barriers and distort the jury’s contemplation of the determinative and critical evidence.’ ””

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