State v. Galusha’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “includes injury other than physical harm. Id. at 596. The supreme court noted it was constrained by the maxim that penal statutes should be construed in a manner most favorable to the accused. Id. Nonetheless, the court held, [T]he legislative intent in enacting extortion statutes is to prevent the use of fear (a mental state) to compel a victim to submit to the extortionist's will. . . . If the legislature had intended”

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

2. “[T]he legislative intent in enacting extortion statutes is to prevent the use of fear (a mental state) to compel a victim to submit to the extortionist's will. . . . If the legislature had intended "injury to the person" to mean only bodily injury, it would have used the term bodily or physical injury.”

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