State v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Robbery consists of the theft of anything of value from the person of another or from the immediate control of another, by use or threatened use of force or violence. Whoever commits robbery is guilty of a third degree felony. Whoever commits robbery while armed with a deadly weapon is, for the first offense, guilty of a second degree felony and, for second and subsequent offenses, is guilty of a first degree felony.”

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

2. “Under the facts of the present case, the victim’s money was removed and separated from his person by stealth. [The defendant clearly had control over the victim’s money once it had been taken from his clothing. [The defendant’s use of a weapon only after the money was separated from the victim was merely an action to hold [the] victim at bay as he escaped from the motel.”

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