Hall v. Langlois’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Whenever any person shall have been bound over to the superior court by a district court upon a complaint charging him with any offense other than murder, which is not within the jurisdiction of said district court to try and determine, such person may, with the leave of the superior court to which he is so bound over, waive the finding and filing of an indictment of a grand jury against him for said offense and with such leave such person may plead guilty, not guilty or nolo contendere and thereafter all proceedings shall be taken and had in the same manner as would have been the case had such pleas been entered to an indictment regularly found and filed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Alessio v. Howard

2. ““ * * * even if we assume that the trial justice was obligated to advise petitioner of the consequences and significance of a waiver of indictment before accepting his plea of nolo, in the case at bar the petitioner was •not prejudiced by any such failure.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Alessio v. Howard