State v. Broadus’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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

1. ““Both [State v.] Wandix [, 590 S.W.2d 82 (Mo. banc 1979) supra, and Roviaro [, v. United States, 353 U.S. 53 , 77 S.Ct. 623 , 1 L.Ed.2d 639 (1957)] supra, cited the issues of identity, scienter and entrapment as ones on which informant testimony may be vital. However, in the present case defendant eliminated these issues by his statements to the police that he knew marijuana to be regularly kept on the premises and that he was absconding with it when he was arrested. Further, defendant presented no evidence at trial and does not now suggest how testimony of the informant might be helpful. Nor is it alleged that informant was a witness to the illegal possession. State v. Nafziger, supra, 534 S.W.2d [480] at 482 [ (Mo.App.1975) ]. For these reasons the trial court did not err in finding the informant’s testimony not essential to defendant’s case in chief.””

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