State v. Billington’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[T]he court may order such party to permit the discovery or inspection of materials not previously disclosed, grant a continuance, or prohibit the party from calling a witness not disclosed, or introducing in evidence the material not disclosed, or it may enter such other order as it deems appropriate under the circumstances.””

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

2. “District attorneys should not have the right to “inadvertently” overlook disclosing important witnesses until the day before trial, the morning of trial, or during trial. Defendant was entitled to a continuance as a matter of law.”

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