State v. Sweeney’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 6 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The rule is well recognized that a witness can be contradicted only upon some matter that is material or relevant to some issue in the case.- It is not always easy to determine when matter thus sought to be contradicted is collateral, and it must generally be determined from the facts of the particular case. A test which appears to contain all the elements of the rule is found in Attorney-general v. Hitchcock, 1 Exch. (Eng.) 91, and is thus stated: Could the fact, as to which the prior self-contradiction is predicated, have been shown in evidence for any purpose independent of the self-contradiction?” (p. 268.)”

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

2. ““Could the fact, as to which the prior self-contradiction is predicated, have been shown in evidence for any purpose independent of the self-contradiction?” (p. 268.)”

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