State v. Contreras’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Statements are nontestimonial when made in the course of police interrogation under circumstances objectively indicating that the primary purpose of the interrogation is to enable police assistance to meet an ongoing emergency. They are testimonial when the circumstances objectively indicate that there is no such ongoing emergency, and that the primary purpose of the interrogation is to establish or prove past events potentially relevant to later criminal prosecution.”

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

2. “[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right ... to be confronted with witnesses against him.” Amend. VI, U.S. Const. . Our supreme court has opined, in a case involving very different facts, that one circumstance which satisfies the confrontation requirement is”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 92 So. 3d 906 - Petit v. State

3. “especially if the defendant is unaware that this deposition would be the only opportunity he would have to examine and challenge the accuracy of the deponent's statements.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Coronado v. State