State v. Sanchez’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. “[I]f a taking or confinement is alleged to have been done to facilitate the commission of another crime, to be kidnaping[,] the resulting movement or confinement: (a) Must not be slight, inconsequential and merely incidental to the other crime; (b) Must not be of the kind inherent in the nature of the other crime; and (c) Must have some significance independent of the other crime in that it makes the other crime substantially easier of commission or substantially lessens the risk of detection.”

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

2. “is most commonly applied to situations involving a defendant who has been charged with committing both a violent crime, in which a detention is inherent, and the crime of kidnaping based solely on the detention necessary to the commission of the companion crime.”

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

3. “Merger is a question of law, which we review for correctness.”

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