Quick v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““ ‘[Tjhere may be one in a million [occasions] where it becomes necessary [to impeach a witness pursuant to prior testimony], but you may do it from a transcript. But if it is done from your notes or from your recollection, then in the Court’s opinion and in the Court’s finding, then you are pitting your memory against the witness’s .... He can’t pit his notes — unless they are notes taken before this jury. This jury, not another jury or reporter, unless it is an official transcript.’ ””

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

2. ““[I]n the present case, the trial court refused to allow defense counsel to use his notes from the prior trial or his memory in order to impeach the witnesses. Thus, there were no alternatives available to the appellant. [[Image here]] “... [Bjecause the appellant, as an indigent, was entitled to the transcript of his prior mistrial of this case, or the use of an adequate alternative, ... the judgment is due to be reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial.””

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