Hewitt v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Rarely is medical testimony absolute on the issue of impending death. Further, there is a natural constraint present in such situations which causes hesitancy in stating to the victim that there is no chance of recovery for fear of destroying whatever fragile hope of survival the will to live will provide.”

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

2. “laboring under a sense of impending death”

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