Pena, Jose Luis’s Empirical Analysis

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1 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]hen part of an act, declaration, conversation, writing or recorded statement is given in evidence by one party, the whole on the same subject may be inquired into by the other, and any other act, declaration, writing or recorded statements which is necessary to make it fully understood or to explain the same may also be given in evidence....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Prince v. State · Kimball Douglas Hailey II v. State

2. “is designed to reduce the possibility of the jury receiving a false impression from hearing only a part of some act, conversation, or writing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Prince v. State

3. “be clear enough to provide the judge and the opposing party an opportunity to address and, if necessary, correct the purported error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Joyner v. State