People v. Sequin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

47 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A statute which proscribes conduct which can be prohibited under the police power of the state is overbroad if it also purports to proscribe conduct which cannot validly be prohibited under that power.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Richardson · People v. Cisneros

2. “Except as necessary to effect legitimate repairs, any person who intentionally removes, changes, alters, or obliterates the vehicle identification number, manufacturer’s number, or engine number of an automobile or automobile part or who possesses an automobile or automobile part and knows or has reasonable cause to know that it contains such a removed, changed, altered, or obliterated vehicle identification number, manufacturer’s number, or engine number commits a class 4 felony and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1-105, C.R.S.”

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

3. “We hesitate to ascribe to the legislature an intent to create the dampening effect on legitimate commercial transactions which would result from such a statutory construction. Even more importantly, we will not lightly assume that the legislature intended to subject conduct to serious criminal penalties without requiring a culpable mental state.... Indeed, a culpable mental state almost certainly is constitutionally mandated if a criminal statute of [this] nature ... is to comport with due process of law. (Citations omitted.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sollars