People v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “properly admitted autopsy photographs into evidence ... [because the] photographs were not excessively gruesome, and were not introduced for the sole purpose of arousing the jurors’ passions and prejudicing the defendant. Rather, the photographs were relevant both to help illustrate and corroborate the testimony of the medical examiner, and to establish intent. The fact that there was other evidence available with regard to these matters did not require the exclusion of the photographs.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 94 F. Supp. 3d 460 - Hamilton v. Lee