Johnston v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the Nevada Legislature has set the punishment for killing or seriously injuring another while driving a vehicle under the influence of intoxicants.... Expansion of the range of punishments for those drunk drivers who kill fellow motorists or bystanders would constitute an impermissible judicial excursion into the Legislature's domain.”

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

2. “naturally tend[ed] to destroy human life.”

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