State v. Medina’s Empirical Analysis

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4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘The rationale for the excited utterance or spontaneous exclamation exception is that a startling event may produce an effect that temporarily stills the declar-ant’s capacity of reflection and produces statements free of conscious fabrication.’ * * * ‘The guarantee of trustworthiness [for the excited utterance exception] is assured as long as the declarant made the statement as an “instinctive outpouring” or an “effusion.” ’ * * * ‘[A] statement made in response to a traumatic or startling event is a spontaneous utterance so long as it was made while the declarant “was still laboring under the stress of [the] * * * experience.” ’ ” Id.”

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