Martin v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We are of the opinion the evidence offered was competent. It went to the credibility of the witness, and respected conduct of his, which did not require to be called to his attention, like conversations he may have had, respecting the subject-matter of his testimony. Besides it tended to show a corrupt combination, not to say conspiracy, between the witness and defendant to injure the latter.””

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