State v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When a district court bases its ultimate conclusions concerning the waiver of a defendant's Miranda rights, upon essentially undisputed facts, in particular the transcript of an officer's colloquy with the defendant, its conclusions present questions of law which we review under a correction of error standard.”

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

2. “When a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is raised for the first time on appeal, there is no lower court ruling to review and we must decide whether the defendant was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel as a matter of law.”

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

3. “[o]nce [the defendant] told the officers that [the victim] and her mother had been threatening to report him for engaging in inappropriate conduct with [the victim], without being asked a question by the officers,”

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