People v. Haskins’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. “a weapon is dangerous within the meaning of the statute either when it can be fired or when, with reasonable preparation, it can be made effective and fit for the use for which it was manufactured. What constitutes a reasonable preparation depends, of course, upon the time required, the changes that have to be made in the weapon, the parts which have to be inserted and all the other attendant factors and circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Vigil