Garland v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The' evenhandedness of justice as' between subject and sóvereign is a reassuring doctrine, and especially so its corollary: that, at a minimum, the law of evidence regulates the mode of proof impartially for the subject and for the sovereign. The hearsay, rule that troubles the former equally vexes the latter; the exceptions to the hearsay rule that ease the latter equally comfort the former.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Allen v. State · 185 So. 3d 571 - Terrel McClam v. State of Florida