State v. Sheetz’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 26 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`a substantial risk that the crime would be committed by a reasonable person in defendant's circumstances who was not otherwise ready and willing to commit the crime.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Sellers · State v. Sellers

2. “When the state’s participation in the criminal enterprise reaches the point where it can be said that [1] except for the conduct of the state a crime would probably not have been committed or [2] because the conduct is such that it is likely to induce those to commit a crime who would normally avoid crime, or, [3] if the conduct is such that if allowed to continue would shake the public’s confidence in the fair and honorable administration of justice, this then becomes entrapment as a matter of law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Vallejos

3. “[A] criminal defendant may successfully assert the defense of entrapment, either by showing lack of predisposition to commit the crime for which he is charged, or, that the police exceeded the standards of proper investigation, as here where the government was both the supplier and the purchaser of the contraband and defendant was recruited as a mere conduit.”

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