State v. Bickerstaff’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 234 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 242 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(A) Where the same conduct by defendant can be construed to constitute two or more allied offenses of similar import, the indictment or information may contain counts for all such offenses, but the defendant may be convicted of only one. (B) Where the defendant’s conduct constitutes two or more offenses of dissimilar import, or where his conduct results in two or more offenses of the same or similar kind committed separately or with a separate animus as to each, the indictment or information may contain counts for all such offenses, and the defendant may be convicted of all of them.”

   9 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Luther A. Woodfork v. Harry K. Russell · Jackson v. Smith

2. ““The time within which an accused must be brought to trial, or, in the case of felony, to preliminary hearing and trial, may be extended only by the following: * * “(E) Any period of delay necessitated by reason of a plea in bar or abatement, motion, proceeding, or action made or instituted by the accused[.]””

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Cleveland v. Pangrace, Unpublished Decision (11-29-2007) · State v. Skorvanek, Unpublished Decision (1-11-2006)

3. “[i]t is evident from a reading of the statute that a motion to dismiss acts to toll the time in which a defendant must be brought to trial.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Cleveland v. Pangrace, Unpublished Decision (11-29-2007) · State v. Skorvanek, Unpublished Decision (1-11-2006)