State v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[The state's burden at a preliminary hearing is probable cause-the same evidentiary threshold it must meet to secure an arrest warrant.... The 'evidence does not need to be capable of supporting a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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

2. “turns in part on whether it applied an appropriate standard of review in affirming the magistrate's decision, and that a magistrate's bindover décision is a mixed determination that is entitled to some limited deference.”

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

3. “primary purpose of preliminary hearings is to allow magistrates to ferret out groundless and improvident prosecutions without usurping the jury's role as the principal fact-finder.”

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