State v. Bonar’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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

1. ““Contained in it were some facts not properly provable by a dying declaration but no motion was made to exclude them. Under the elementary rule the objection to the declaration as a whole did not reach this defect, and no prejudice resulted, since the defendant when a witness in his own behalf related substantially the same facts.” (p. 804.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bagnall v. Hunt