Tyree v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he extent of cross-examination [of a witness] with respect to an appropriate subject of inquiry is within the sound discretion of the trial court,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Cb · In Re LDH

2. “cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth, [and] it is the principal means by which the believability of a witness and the truth of his or her testimony are tested. Where a witness cannot be cross-examined, the search for truth is severely impaired.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re CW

3. “significant that none of these [hearsay] accusations [by a child] has been tested by cross-examination, which is `the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Jam. J.