State v. Isaac M.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, felonious or infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury or information filed by a district attorney or attorney general or their deputies, except in cases arising in the militia when in actual service in time of war or public danger. No person shall be so held on information without having had a preliminary examination before an examining magistrate, or having waived such preliminary examination.”

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

2. “does not expressly limit the `power of the district attorney either to resubmit a matter to a grand jury or to proceed by information after a grand jury has returned a no[-] bill'”

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

3. “to scrutinize charging decisions in limited appropriate cases that seek to circumvent... constitutional safeguards.”

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