Haight 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. “"mistreatment and bodily injury acts resemble the criminal offense of assault. Both the unlawful restraint and assault offenses are fundamentally assaultive. For assault-type offenses, the allowable unit of prosecution is the victim. In this case, because the victim is the allowable unit of prosecution of the relevant underlying acts, the allowable unit of prosecution for the offense of official oppression is also the victim.””

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

2. “a public servant acting under color of ... office or employment intentionally commits one of a list of acts: ‘subjects another to mistreatment or to arrest, detention, search, seizure, dispossession, assessment, or lien that he knows is unlawful.” Examining the offenses charged in the subject case: unlawful arrest; mistreatment; and bodily injury, the court reasoned that the”

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