Kingsley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “reasonably capable of being rendered operable”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Butler · Wall v. State

2. “even though it was stuck in the mud and no longer capable of movement under its own power). In Wall's case, the evidence was clear that Wall's vehicle had been moving under its own power until shortly before Trooper Erickson found it. All the witnesses agreed that Wall's vehicle had been driven to that place, and that the vehicle stalled when Oder made an abrupt turn. Both Oder and Wall then engaged in efforts to re-start the car. These efforts were obviously premised on the belief that the vehicle remained”

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

3. “definitions” section of Title 28 (Transportation), A.R.S. § 28-101(17) provides: " 'Drive' means to operate or be in actual physical control of a motor vehicle.” “Actual physical control,”

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