State v. Ferrell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In our recent case of State v. Phillips, 108 Ariz. 335 [sic], 489 P.2d 199 , filed June 15, 1972, we held that it was not necessary that the trial judge apprise the defendant of the specific legal elements of the offense. The requirement that the record show that the defendant understands the nature of the offense may be established in a manner other than by reciting the elements of the offense, in Phillips we cited with approval State v. Kuhlman, 15 Ariz.App. 359 , 488 P.2d 996 (1971), which held that it was not necessary for the court to recite the legal elements of the offense when the “defendant had admitted, under questioning by the trial court, the acts constituting the elements of the offense charged.” State v. Ferrell, 108 Ariz. 394, 395 , 499 P.2d 109, 110 (1972).”

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