Henson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions

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

1. ““Third, the hospital record is a brief, one-page document reporting only factual clinical findings based on direct physical observation of the victim. It reports only data of an objective nature and contains no conclusions as to causation. The physician’s con-clusory entry ‘Possible rape’ and the patient’s statement ‘poss. Rape’ were deleted, and the entries which remain are not the type of diagnostic opinions that could be subject to divergent medical views.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 75 Wis. 2d 575 - State v. Olson