State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Statutory construction is an exercise to determine legislative intent. In analyzing statutory language we adhere to two primary rules of statutory construction. The first rule is that the language expressed in the statute is the paramount consideration. The second rule is that if the words and phrases in the statute have plain meaning and effect, we should simply declare their meaning and not resort to statutory construction. When we must, however, resort to statutory construction, the intent of the legislature is derived from the plain, ordinary and popular meaning of statutory language.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. R.B.O. v. Congregation of the Priests of the Sacred Heart, Inc. · State Auto Insurance Companies v. B.N.C.

2. “`The [trial] court must consider not only possible prejudice to the defendant . . . but also possible prejudice to the government because of two time-consuming, expensive, and duplicitous trials.'”

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