State v. Joyner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Although pro se defendants are often permitted to testify in narrative form to facilitate presentation of their case, it is not necessarily an abuse of discretion to require a pro se defendant to use a question-and-answer format.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Henderson v. Commonwealth