People v. Saiz’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) Where a witness in a criminal trial has made a previous statement inconsistent with his [or her] testimony at the trial, the previous inconsistent statement may be shown by any otherwise competent evidence and is admissible not only for the purpose of impeaching the testimony of the yntness, but also for the purpose of establishing a fact to which his [or her] testimony and the inconsistent statement relate, if: (a) The witness, while testifying, was given an opportunity to explain or deny the statefnent or the witness is still available to give further testimony in the trial; and (b) The previous inconsistent statement purports to relate to a matter within the witness’s own knowledge.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 31. People v. Salas