State v. Labonte’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

27 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. ““ ‘After coming back from New York, I met a car coming over on my side of the road until I got to a point where there is a road that goes off to the right across from where my car rolled over. I didn’t know whether I should turn into this road, as I was going about 40 M P H. I hit the soft shoulder on the left side of the road and overturned.’ ””

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

2. “it is now well settled that it is within the power of the legislature to declare an act criminal irrespective of the intent of knowledge of the doer of the act [citations omitted]. Furthermore, the power of a legislature to define a crime based upon ordinary negligence has been recognized in numerous jurisdictions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 590 So. 2d 1139 - State v. Ritchie

3. “the power of a legislature to define a crime based upon ordinary negligence has been recognized in numerous jurisdictions”). Cf. State v. Hedges, 8 Wash.2d 652 , 113 P.2d 530, 536 (1941) (whether to use negligence or gross negligence is a”

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