State v. Mita’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the citation and an oral recitation of the essential facts constituting the offense charged . . . shall be deemed the complaint, notwithstanding any waiver of the recitation”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Walker · State v. Walker

2. “(a) A person commits the offense of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant if the person operates or assumes actual physical control of a vehicle: (1) While under the influence of alcohol in an amount sufficient to impair the person’s normal mental faculties or ability to care for the person and guard against casualty; [or] [[Image here]] (3) With .08 or more grams of alcohol per two hundred ten liters of breath[.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Nesmith · State v. Maharaj

3. “[T]he State need only allege the statutory definition of a term when it creates an additional essential element of the offense, and the term itself does not provide a person of common understanding with fair notice of that element.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Partridge · State v. Garcia