21 Mich. App. 178 - People v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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

1. “In order to have an ‘abuse’ in reaching . . . [a] determination [made between competing considerations], the result must be so palpably and grossly violative of fact and logic that it evidences not the exercise of will but perversity of will, not the exercise of judgment but the defiance thereof, not the exercise of reason but rather of passion or bias. [People v. Wolschon, 2 Mich.App. 186 , 139 N.W.2d 123, 124 (1966)].”

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