Lewis v. Class’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[I]t is settled that criminal or penal legislation amending existing law may not change the legal consequences of acts completed before its effective date, a statute, however, is not rendered unconstitutional as an ex post facto law merely because it might operate on a fact or status preexisting the effective date of the legislation, as long as its punitive features apply only to acts committed after the statutory proscription becomes effective.”

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

2. “when used in this chapter, includes every person who is in custody by being under arrest or by being under process of law issued from a court of competent jurisdiction, whether civil or criminal. A prisoner at the time of his escape need not be in a place designated for the keeping of prisoners. The term”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Watkins v. Class

3. “[ High Elk 's appeal] is meritorious on the following grounds: 1. that the issues on appeal are clearly controlled by settled South Dakota law or federal law binding upon the states, Williams v. Lee, 33 F.3d 1010 (8thCir.1994), cert. denied, [ 514 U.S. 1032 ] 115 S.Ct. 1393 , 131 L.Ed.2d 244 (U.S. 1995).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Watkins v. Class