State v. Brunning’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

56 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(A) No person, knowing the person has no privilege to do so, and with purpose to defraud or knowing that the person is facilitating a fraud, shall do any of the following: (1) Falsify, destroy, remove, conceal, alter, deface, or mutilate any writing, computer software, data, or record; (2) Utter any writing or record, knowing it to have been tampered with as provided in division (A)(1) of this section.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 96 F. Supp. 3d 753 - Bradley v. Miller

2. “"When a court strikes down a statute as unconstitutional, and the offending statute replaced an existing law that had been repealed in the same bill that enacted the offending statute, the repeal is also invalid unless it clearly appears that the General Assembly meant the repeal to have effect even if the offending statute had never been passed."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Grant v. Collins (Slip Opinion)

3. “It is unimaginable that the General Assembly would have intended offenders originally classified under Megan's Law to be free from any reporting requirements if the AWA were to be struck down.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Grant v. Collins (Slip Opinion)