State v. Therriault’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2024
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Arizona v. Washington · United States v. Dinitz · United States v. Oates · State v. Linscott · State v. Mahaney
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ruling, from which three justices dissented, is a troublesome one. The Maine State Police Crime Laboratory is a public agency. The public records exception, Rule 803(8), specifically excludes ‘investigative reports by police and other law enforcement personnel.’ It is hard to logically justify how terming the activity of the Maine State Police Crime Laboratory as a ‘regularly conducted business’ should lead to a different result. It appears that the majority of Therriault has sought to create a new exception to the hearsay rule for governmental investigative reports when offered by the defendant. The question remains, however, whether or not it would have been preferable to have amended Rule 803(8) rather than attempt to find this exception within the language of Rule 803(6).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Tomah“(1) the record was made "at or near the time” of the events reflected in the record by, or from information transmitted by, a person with personal knowledge of the events recorded therein; (2) the record was kept "in the course of a regularly conducted business”; (3) it was the regular practice of that business to make records of the type involved; and (4) no lack of trustworthiness is indicated from the source of information from which the record was made or the method or circumstances under which the record was prepared.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Tomah“it was error for the presiding justice to have ruled that the laboratory report was inadmissible under the business records exception to the hearsay rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Tomah
How this case has been treated — in progress
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