State v. Burke’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Declaration of Decedent Made in Good Faith. A declaration of a deceased person shall not be inadmissible in evidence as hearsay if the court finds that it was made in good faith before the commencement of the action and upon the personal knowledge of the declarant.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Feliciano · State v. Scholl

2. “"Unlike the exception for dying declarations contained in proposed [R]ule 804(b)(2), this exception applies in all criminal and civil cases, and is not limited to the cause or circumstances of the declarant’s impending death.””

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

3. “must show there is a significant chance that the use and development of the withheld evidence by skilled counsel at trial would have produced a reasonable doubt in the minds of enough jurors to avoid a conviction.”

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