State v. Chang’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[the defendant] had the right to testify for the purpose of his motion to suppress without having that testimony used against him at trial[,] [i]t was essential that [the defendant] be informed of those rights in order to ensure that [the defendant's] decision whether to testify at the suppression hearing was knowingly and intelligently made.”

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

2. “The 1975 commentary to the HRPP makes clear that HRPP Rule 12(e)'s mandate that courts decide suppression motions before trial has a specific purpose in the course of criminal proceedings: to preserve the State's right to appeal if the court grants the defendant's suppression motion.”

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

3. “failure to properly inform [the defendant] of his separate and distinct rights to testify[] render[ed the defendant's] subsequent waiver of these rights invalid”

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