State v. McGonigle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

34 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ . . . As we said in Witt Ice & Gas Co. v. Bedway, 72 Ariz. 152, 157 , 231 P.2d 952 : “ ‘It is not necessary that the article be identically the same as at the time in controversy, and it is also unnecessary to show an absence of tampering on the part of every person through whose hands the article has passed; as long as the article can be identified it is immaterial in how many or in whose hands it has been.’ (Emphasis added.)””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Chavez · State v. Humphrey

2. ““Merely because there were slight dissimilarities in the names of the defendants who had been previously convicted does not mean that the state has failed to carry its burden of proof, * * * ****** “* * * the jury could easily look at the photographs and compare them with the defendants on trial * *”

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

3. ““Moreover, since the trial court instructed the jury at the end of the case in chief that the state had the burden of proving every material fact in the information it was under no duty to repeat that instruction before the jury retired to deliberate on the issue of prior conviction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 13 Ariz. App. 577 - State v. Loggins