2001 UT App 123 - State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis

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7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[Ilf a taking or confinement is alleged to have been done to facilitate the commission of another crime, to be kidnaping the resulting movement or confinement: | - (a) Must not be slight, inconsequential and merely incidental to the other crime; (b) Must not be of the kind inherent in the nature of the other crime; and (c) Must have some significance independent of the other crime in that it makes the other erime. substantially easier of commission or substantially lessens. the risk of detection.[ 19 ]”

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

2. ““We will reverse a jury verdict only when, after viewing the evidence and all inferences drawn therefrom in a light most favorable to the verdict, we find that the evidence to support the verdict was completely lacking or was so slight and unconvincing as .to make the verdict plainly unreasonable and unjust.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2005 UT App 86 - State v. McDonald

3. “In such instances, it is irrelevant whether or not the kidnaping made the other crime substantially easier of commission or substantially lessen[ed] the risk of detection because the fgic'ts had independent significance sufficient to support a separate conviction for aggravated kidnaping.”

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