State v. Sweet’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[The informant] approached Sweet and inquired whether Sweet would sell him marijuana. Sweet then provided [the informant] with marijuana in exchange for money. Sweet was merely presented with the opportunity to commit the crime of criminal sale of dangerous drugs. There is no evidence on the tapes derived from the body wire to suggest that Sweet lacked criminal intent and was lured into committing a crime which he had no intention of committing.”

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

2. “there is a controlling distinction between inducing a person to do an unlawful act and setting a trap to catch him in the execution of a criminal design of his own conception.”

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

3. “Merely affording the defendant the opportunity or facility for committing an offense is not entrapment.”

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