State v. Melvin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Moreover as to any additional assistance the jury might derive from an actual view of the prison, it was reasonable for the presiding justice to have concluded that this benefit was sufficiently minor to be outweighed by the special burdens involved in a jury view of the State Prison: the extraordinary precautions which would be necessary to maintain prison routine and security because of the presence of the jury as well as to ensure that the jury would not become exposed to potentially prejudicial information.” Id. at 1032 .”

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

2. “It is also important to recognize that under the Federal Constitution the Miranda “procedural safeguards” are “not themselves rights protected by the Constitution but were instead measures to insure that the right against compulsory self-incrimination was protected.” Michigan v. Tucker, 417 U.S. 433 , 94 S.Ct. 2357 , 41 L.Ed.2d 182 (1974). Id.”

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