7 Haw. App. 80 - State v. Rodrigues’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “To demonstrate the unavailability of a de-clarant at trial, the prosecution must show that it made a good faith attempt to secure his or her presence. To establish this good faith attempt, the prosecution must confirm on the record at the time of trial both the declarant’s unavailability and that vigorous and appropriate steps were taken to procure the declarant’s presence at trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Moore

2. “[t]he right of confrontation `affords the accused both the opportunity to challenge the credibility and veracity of the prosecution's witnesses and an occasion for the jury to weigh the demeanor of those witnesses.'”

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

3. “when the prosecution seeks to admit testimony from a prior judicial proceeding in place of live testimony at trial”

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