Cothrum v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"In the trial of an accused for robbery, where the issue is whether the defendant is the person who robbed the prosecuting witness, testimony of what the prosecuting witness said in identifying or describing the robber at some other time or place is not admissible as original testimony. In like manner, the testimony of the officer that from such description he arrested the defendant is hearsay and inadmissable. " (Emphasis added)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Washington v. State · Washington v. State

2. ““Identification of the defendant at a police line-up prior to trial and subsequent to the alleged crime is not an identification of the defendant as the one who committed the (crime), but testimony of an extra-judicial identification and is inadmissible as original testimony.””

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

3. ““Whether he identified him (defendant) at any other time or place, either before or after the trial, would be immaterial, and in a sense, a self-serving declaration.””

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