Lesher v. Hynes’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “emphasize[d] that this does not mean that every document in a law enforcement agency's criminal case file is automatically exempt from disclosure simply because kept there”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Abdur-Rashid v. N.Y.C. Police Dep't

2. “identify[ing] the generic kinds of documents for which the exemption is claimed, and the generic risks posed by disclosure of [those] categories of documents”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Abdur-Rashid v. N.Y.C. Police Dep't

3. “crime summaries, timelines of when and where each crime occurred, witness names and personal information, and witness statements”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Abdur-Rashid v. N.Y.C. Police Dep't