State v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

41 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Any alleged ‘irregularity’ pertaining to a preliminary examination is deemed to have been waived where a defendant enters a voluntary plea of guilty in the district court.” (Syl. f 4.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Baier · State v. Talbert

2. ““A justice of the peace who sits as an examining magistrate at a preliminary examination of an accused who is charged with the commission of a felony, has no jurisdiction to arraign the accused or to accept a plea of guilty on said charge, and, where the transcript of the examination discloses such a purported arraignment of the accused and his plea of guilty to said charge, it is a nullity and should be disregarded.” (Syl. ¶ 3.)”

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