State v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 43 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he hearsay statement of an unknown bystander is admissible under the excited utterance exception only when the circumstances which surround it would affect the declarant in a way that assures its spontaneity and, therefore, its reliability for trustworthiness.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Dennis · State v. LaCoste

2. “denial of [a] motion for continuance will not be disturbed absent clear abuse of discretion resulting in prejudice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. David Clayton Hill v. Jon E. Ozmint, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections Henry Dargan McMaster Attorney General, State of South Carolina