Seyle v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"In Chamberlain v. State, Wyo., 348 P.2d 280 (1960), we held that it is within the purview of our statute [§ 1-142, supra (now W.S. 1-12-104)] that the wife be permitted to testify where she has suffered a special, particular and personal wrong through the rapacious assault upon her child. We reasoned that cases in which there is a wrong against the child of the wife fall within the § 1-142 exception applicable to `criminal proceedings for a crime committed by one [spouse] against the other' * * *. If we abandoned the construction placed on § 1-142, supra, in Chamberlain , we would encourage defendants to silence their spouses in child-abuse or child-homicide cases. This is not the policy of this State."”

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

2. “[slince the prosecution has the burden of proving all the elements of a crime, relevant photographs do not become inadmissible because the defendant concedes the fact and cause of the vie-tim's death.”

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

3. “there was no marital privilege, precluding the wife's testimony against the defendant, which could be infringed by the prosecutor's comments.”

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