People v. Cotarelo’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “[H]e forcibly steals property and when, in the course of the commission of the crime or of immediate flight therefrom, he or another participant in the crime: .. .4) displays what appears to be a pistol, revolver or other firearm ... except that in any prosecution under this subdivision, it is an affirmative defense that such pistol ... was not a loaded weapon from which a shot, readily capable of producing death or other serious physical injury, could be discharged.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 36 F. Supp. 2d 534 - Taylor v. Kuhlmann