State v. Hooper’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Quass did not admit to personal knowledge regarding Prazniak’s death or her murder in the videotaped interview conducted more than two weeks after police discovered Prazniak’s body. She referred to the smell in the hallways and a comment made to her by the “girl that lives next door to Lindsay,” but made no reference to timeframe, crime committed, or knowledge of any details of the crime. Importantly, she denied any involvement in the murder.”

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

2. “[a] statement [by an unavailable declar-ant] which was at the time of its making so far contrary to the declarant’s pecuniary or proprietary interest, or so far tended to subject the declarant to civil or criminal liability, or to render invalid a claim by the declarant against another, that a reasonable person in the declar-ant’s position would not have made the statement unless believing it to be true.”

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

3. “Corroborating evidence may be secured from the defendant’s association with those involved in the crime in such a way as to suggest joint participation, as well as from the defendant’s opportunity and motive to commit the crime and his proximity to the place where the crime was committed.”

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