State v. Lebeau’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Although what he's convicted of is extraordinarily serious, there ought to be some possibility of hope, some possibility that at some distant point in time if he can demonstrate a sufficient reformation by that time, that the State would-that the Board of Pardons would at least be in a position to consider it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2016 UT App 70 - State v. Jaramillo

2. “we must view those statements 'in context of the arguments advanced by both sides as well as in context of all the evidence'”

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

3. “that [the dlefendant, in a telephone call from jail, had lied to [his girlfriend] about whether he remembered what happened”

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