Lambright v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 45 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"It may be inferred from the circumstances that he was in a helpless condition, and was unable to get up and open the door of his house when parties called in the morning; but still there is no sufficient showing, in our judgment, to reasonably exclude the presumption that any statement made by him so long a time after he was shot was from deliberate design. His statement, under the circumstances, would be the narration of a past transaction without sufficient connecting circumstances to characterize it as a spontaneous utterance or necessary incident of the transaction, and preclude the idea of deliberation or design."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 198 So. 2d 21 - State v. Williams

2. “All declarations or exclamations uttered by the parties to a transaction, and which are contemporaneous with and accompany it, and are calculated to throw light upon the motives and intention of the parties to it, are clearly admissible as parts of the res gestae.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 188 So. 2d 320 - Williams v. State