State v. Bednark’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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

1. ““In the recent case of State v. Hamilton, 185 Kan. 101 340 P. 2d 390 , many of our state cases pertaining to rule No. 5 were discussed and we again concluded that in order for the supreme court to review alleged trial errors in a criminal prosecution it is required that the defendant appeal from the order overruling his motion for a new trial, and, in addition thereto, such ruling must be specified as error. (Citing State v. Shehi, 125 Kan. 110 , 263 Pac. 787 ; State v. Brown, 145 Kan. 247 , 65 P. 2d 333 ; State v. Owen, 161 Kan. 361 , 168 P. 2d 917 , and State v. Turner, 183 Kan. 496 , 328 P. 2d 733 , 359 U. S. 206 , 3 L. Ed. 2d 759 , 79 S. Ct. 739 .) See also State v. Trinkle, 186 Kan. 809 , 352 P. 2d 937 ; 1 Hatchers Kansas Digest [Rev. Ed.], Appeal & Error, §§ 175, 176; 2 West’s Kansas Digest, Appeal & Error, § 719 [10], § 722 [1].” (p. 237)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Falder