Miller v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Whether a [district] court properly granted a rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss 'is a question of law that we review for correctness, affording the [district] court's decision no deference.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Maese v. Davis County · Wamsley v. State

2. “[When evaluating the [statutory] language at issue we assume the legislature used each term advisedly and in accordance with its ordinary meaning.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2015 UT App 188 - State v. Flygare · 2011 UT App 94 - Carol L. Lowry Irrevocable Trust v. G & L Enterprises, LLC

3. “). And the Factual Innocence Statute outlines a narrow class of cases where courts are not required to view a particular category of facts submitted in support of a petition for postconviction relief in a light most favorable to the petitioner. Specifically, subsection (4) provides that if the defendant's conviction”

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