Crawford v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) there must be sufficient designation of the items sought to be discovered (particularity); (2) the items requested must be material to the defense (relevance or materiality); and (3) if the first two requirements are met, the trial court must grant the request unless there is a showing of "paramount interest" in nondisclosure.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wise v. State · Thomas L. Hale v. State of Indiana

2. “Although described as the particularity requirement, in reality this test also smuggled in the commonsensical elements of a showing that the information is not readily available elsewhere (the "degree of discovery of other items of information” in Dillard) and that the party seeking it is not engaged in a fishing expedition with no focused idea of the size, species, or edibility of the fish.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Angela Lundy v. State of Indiana