Lewis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2017
15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Beekman · State v. Glass · Dorman v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a deliberate attempt to mislead [the magistrate].”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“in keeping with the spirit of Wigmore's criticism, have relaxed the requirement that a witness be peculiarly within the control of the defendant and have allowed comment on the failure to call any available witness whose testimony 'would naturally be expected to be favorable' to the defendant.” Id. (citing People v. Ford, 45 Cal.3d 431 , 247 Cal.Rptr. 121, 131 , 754 P.2d 168, 178 (1988) (en banc); Wheatley v. State, 465 A.2d 1110, 1111 (Del.1983); State v. Moore, 620 S.W.2d 370, 373 (Mo.1981) (en banc)). However, some other jurisdictions endorse a very strict application of the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gilbert“observing that even in cases where a witness is equally available to both parties, ‘the more logical view is that the failure to produce is open to an inference against both parties, the particular strength of the inference depending on the circumstances.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gilbert
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