State v. Supinski’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'the right to exercise peremptory challenges in a criminal case is a right which may be waived by the accused or by the State after a fair opportunity has been given to exercise it,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Elder · People v. Lucero

2. ““Segregating or requiring exclusion of the witnesses from the courtroom during trial, or ‘putting them under the rule,’ as it is sometimes called, is a matter which rests almost entirely in the trial court s discretion. It has also been recognized from an early day that the trial court may, in its discretion, except individual witnesses from its order of exclusion to meet the needs of a particular situation, and this includes prosecuting witnesses and officials of the court. The rule may be ‘ * * * so molded as to meet the requirements of justice in each particular case,’ State v. Hughes, supra, 71 Mo. [663] at 636, and we can perceive no abuse of the trial court’s discretion in this case.””

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

3. “'is purely a right to reject, and not a right of selection,'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Lucero