State v. Clemo’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A person who has been found guilty of any offense and who, while engaged in the commission of the offense, knowingly displayed, brandished, or otherwise used a firearm, destructive device, as defined in 45-8-332(1), or other dangerous weapon shall, in addition to the punishment provided for the commission of such offense, be sentenced to a term of imprisonment in the state prison of not less than 2 years or more than 10 years.”

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

2. “a device is a weapon under the plain meaning of § 45-2-101[78], MCA, if it is easily able to produce death or serious bodily injury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. RB" J" C.

3. “readily capable of being used to produce death or serious bodily injury;”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. RB" J" C.