State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The granting or denial of a motion to provide supporting services to counsel for an indigent defendant in a criminal prosecution is a matter within the discretion of the trial court. Its ruling will not be disturbed in the absence of a sliowing that such discretion has been abused to the extent that the defendant’s substantial rights have been prejudiced.” (Syl. 1.)”

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

2. “. . The principle is well established that possession of a forged instrument by one who utters or seeks to utter it, or otherwise to realize on it or profit by it, without a reasonable explanation of how he acquired it, warrants an inference that the possessor himself committed the forgery or was a guilty accessory to its commission. . . (Citations omitted)”

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