16 Ariz. App. 573 - State v. Osborn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ We therefore hold that the part of Subsection 14 of A.R.S. § 36-1001 which gives power to the Federal Narcotics Commissioner to name substances that have been scrutinized and found to contain narcotic compounds, with said determination then binding upon our State’s laws relative to what actually is a narcotic drug, is unconstitutionally vague, indefinite and uncertain.” ( 16 Ariz.App. at 577 ; 494 P.2d at 777 ).”

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

2. ““14. ‘Narcotic drugs’ means coca leaves, opium, cannabis, isonipecaine, amidone, isoamidone, ketobemidone, any other drug of natural or synthetic origin that may be classified as a narcotic by the federal narcotics commissioner, and any substance neither chemically nor physically distinguishable from them.” (Emphasis added).”

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