State v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis

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54 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"This issue has recently been before us several times. In the case of State v. Wright, 344 So.2d 1014 (La.1977), the defendant moved before jury selection for a copy of the district attorney's list which indicated how prospective jurors had voted in prior jury trials and the type of case heard by each of the prospective jurors. We assumed without deciding that the lists were the work product of the district attorney's office and held that to discover a work product a litigant must demonstrate that denial of such production would unduly prejudice the preparation of his case or cause him hardship or injustice. We stated that: "In order to make such a showing . . . he would have been required to demonstrate that he could not practicably obtain information from other sources, and that the state intended to use it in selecting the jury. Had defendant done so, he should have been given the information before voir dire or else allowed to question the prospective jurors on the subject.' 344 So.2d at 1017 . Because defendant made no such showing, however, no reversible error was found in the trial judge's refusal to demand production of the lists. In State v. Rey, 351 So.2d 489 , handed down October 10, 1977, the Court again found no merit in defendant's complaint that he had not been given the lists because: `In the present case, the record indicates that the prosecutor assembled his information on the voting records of prospective jurors from the records in the office of the clerk o”

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

2. “suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request violates due process where the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 432 So. 2d 1057 - State v. Walker

3. “respond to a specific request of the defense by stating whether the state had knowledge or possession of the conviction records”

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