State v. Hankins’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. ““Montana follows the general rule that an information is sufficient if it properly charges an offense in the language of the statute describing the offense. State ex rel Glantz v. District Court (1969), 154 Mont. 132 , 461 P.2d 193 . ‘An information need only be sufficient to apprise the accused of the crime charged. It need not be perfect.’ State v. Coleman (1978), 177 Mont. 1, 22 , 579 P.2d 732, 745 .””

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

2. ““Any person engaging in the activities prohibited in subsection (1) in furtherance of a scheme to traffic in the body parts of unlawfully taken species is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by a fine of $10,000 or imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 1 year or both.””

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