State v. Knutson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Neither the Clemens case * * * nor the Gorman case * * * go further than holding that after reasonable efforts to notify a defendant at liberty on bail that the jury is ready to render a verdict in his trial the court, if efforts fail, may receive the verdict in his absence. We do not think it proper practice to go beyond this. The course pursued in the instant case is so irregular, loose and contrary to the usual procedure in felony trials by the district courts of our state that had it been made the basis of a motion for a new trial a n.ew trial should have resulted. But no motion for a new trial was made.””

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