Webb v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 4 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “particular guarantees of trustworthiness”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Herbert Wright · United States v. Anthony Gregg Payton

2. “We agree that “particularized guarantees of trustworthiness” must be shown from the totality of the circumstances, but we think the relevant circumstances include only those that surround the making of the statement and that render the declarant particularly worthy of belief.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 996 F. Supp. 1019 - Whelchel v. Wood

3. “does not forbid recourse to other evidence that confirms the presumptive unreliability of the hearsay”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Marvin Howard Bockting v. Robert Bayer