Ware v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

40 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Likewise, the right to appeal a state criminal conviction is not a fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States or a requisite of due process of law guaranteed to any person by the Fourteenth Amendment. Such a right is a privilege, a matter of grace which the state can extend or withhold as it deems fit, or which may be granted on such terms and conditions as it sees fit. [Citations omitted.]””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. State · State v. Young

2. ““Since the right to appeal is not a right granted or guaranteed by either the Constitution of the state of Kansas or the Constitution of the United States, it logically follows that the failure of a district court to advise a defendant of his right to appeal could in no way deprive him of any fundamental constitutional right.” (p. 526.)”

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

3. “is not an inherent, natural, inalienable, absolute or vested right.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re I.A.