State v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Appellant next claims that the magistrate erred in allowing the undercover narcotics agent Rohrbach to refresh his memory from a copy of a report dictated by him, to which certain material had been added. We see no clear showing of an abuse of discretion in such a procedure, and therefore do not disturb the magistrate's probable cause conclusion. [Emphasis added.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Gallatin

2. “Absent a showing of some material change in defendant's circumstances in the nine day interim it was not error to reuse the same report.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Romero