State v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 23 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[TJhese statements do not fit within the definitions or the examples of testimonial statements. A 911 call is usually made because the caller wants protection from an immediate danger, not because the 911 caller expects the report to be used later at trial with the caller bearing witness— rather, there is a cloak of anonymity surrounding 911 calls that encourages citizens to make emergency calls and not fear repercussion.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Brun · State v. Staten

2. “the principal evil at which the Confrontation Clause was directed was the civil-law mode of criminal procedure, and particularly its use of ex parte examinations as evidence against the accused.”

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

3. “We are not convinced that a police response to an incident when the victims are in distress and primarily concerned with ensuring that their assailant has been apprehended satisfies any of the formulations or examples of testimonial hearsay provided by the Supreme Court- This dialogue, although certainly part of an investigative process, is not an “interrogation” and does not result in a formal statement.... The statements are fundamentally different from “testimonial” statements taken in anticipation of trial. They lack the formalized nature of a deposition, affidavit, interrogation, or grand jury testimony. [The victims’] statements are highly unlikely to be calculated for effect in future legal proceedings. Their narrative statements following the stressful events are neither “solemn” declarations .... nor accounts of a crime made “with an eye toward trial.””

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