Alcaraz v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “all damages which a victim could recover against the defendant in a civil action arising out of the same facts or event, including damages for wrongful death. It does not include punitive damages and damages for pain, suffering, mental anguish and loss of consortium.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hampton v. State · Hampton v. State

2. “She claims, as she did below, that the proper measure of pecuniary damages should be $1,011.95, which was the sale price of the goods on the day they were stolen. Under the specific facts and cireumstances of this case, we must agree with Solis. 2 [d10] An easily identifiable civil cause of action under which JCPenney could recover damages against Solis would be conversion. We have defined conversion as”

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

3. “Judicial discretion is a composite of many things, among which are conclusions drawn from objective criteria; it means a sound judgment exercised with regard to what is right under the cireumstances and without doing so arbitrarily or capriciously.”

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