State v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * The plain and practical effect of his action, even though unintended, was to materially prejudice the defendant in making his defense. It deprived the defendant of his right to put on his defense in an orderly manner free of unreasonable and deliberate interruption of a highly prejudicial nature. It gave an unfair advantage to the State’s case by interrupting the defendant’s testimony midway, to defendant’s obvious disadvantage, to allow two officers to be recalled tó give testimony beyond their own testimony in chief, contrary to and in rebuttal of defendant’s interrupted testimony, reserving the third officer’s testimony for later rebuttal. This testimony taken out of order not only improperly overemphasized the State’s evidence but also, when coupled with the comments of the court, had the effect of an unfavorable judicial comment on the credibility of the defendant as weighed against the credibility of the officers. * * * ” State v. Hunt, supra, at 510 .”

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