State v. Blalock’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If the witness neither directly admit[s] nor den[ies] the act or declaration, as when he merely says that he does not recollect, or, as it seems, gives any other indirect answer not amounting to an admission, it is competent for the adversary to prove the affirmative, for otherwise the witness might in every such case exclude evidence of what he had done or said by answering that he did not remember.”

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

2. “Extrinsic evidence of a prior inconsistent statement by a witness is not admissible unless the witness is advised of the substance of the statement, the time and place is was allegedly made, and the person to whom it was made.... If a witness does not admit [making] ... the prior inconsistent statement, extrinsic evidence of such statement is admissible.”

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