State v. Haddock’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““There is nothing in Section 36-1002.-05, or in any other section of the ‘Uniform Narcotic Drug Act’, (A.R.S. § 36-1001 through § 36-1105) which suggests that the word ‘marijuana’, as used above in the phrase, ‘or who knowingly possesses any marijuana’, was intended to have a meaning other than that normally assigned to the word, * * *. “ ‘While in some of the articles to which we have referred the word “marijuana” is used indiscriminately with reference to the plant, the drug, or the flowering tops and leaves of cannabis sativa, the preponderant use of the word, we think, is clearly with reference to the product which is used for smoking’ ”.”

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

2. “A.R.S. § 36-1002.05 A states: “Growing, processing and possessing marijuana; penalty “Every person who knowingly grows, plants, cultivates, harvests, dries, or processes any marijuana, or any part thereof, or who knowingly possesses any marijuana, except as otherwise provided by law, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than one year nor more than ten years but for the first offense the court may impose a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year or both”.”

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