State v. Chukes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 5 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. “If the two crimes are such that the greater cannot be committed without necessarily having committed the lesser, then the lesser offense merges into the greater crime and the State cannot convict and punish the defendant for both offenses.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Berriel · State v. Corona

2. “[a] defendant may be prosecuted in a single criminal action for all separate offenses arising out of a single eriminal episode; however, when the same act of a defendant under a single criminal episode shall establish offenses which may be punished in different ways under different provisions of this code, the act shall be punishable under only one such provision; an aequit-tal or conviction and sentence under any such provision bars a prosecution under any other such provision.”

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

3. “A person is guilty of identity fraud when that person: (i) obtains personal identifying information of another person whether that person is alive or deceased; and (ii) knowingly or intentionally uses, or attempts to use, that information with fraudulent intent, including to obtain, or attempt to obtain, credit, goods, services, employment, any other thing of value, or medical information.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Johnson