State v. Lepine’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““After a careful examination of 'all the evidence in the case we are cleanly of the opinion that the -defendant was fully justified in this case in believing that the deceased either intended to kill her at the time she fired' the fatal shot, or -was threatening* to make an assault -upon her calculated to d'o her great bodily injury.””

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