State v. Cartwright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “even if the trial court had some choice as to whether to make the audiotapes available to [the] defendant on the morning of trial, as the third motion to compel apparently requested, it had no choice in the matter after those witnesses testified.”

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

2. “does not require production of the material to the party issuing the subpoena; it merely commands that the witness bring the material to the courtroom so that it is available if and when a party needs it.”

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

3. “[W]hen a litigant requests that a witness's prior statement be made available for use in his or her cross-examination, the court must honor that request.”

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