State v. Ostrand’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “However, if law enforcement officers utilize an individual to help them arrange the commission of a crime by a particular person to whom the officers direct the individual the officers cannot disclaim the inducements such individual offers in the course of his efforts for the officers sim ply because he was a private citizen or unaware that he was being so utilized.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Allan Banks Gibb III

2. “But should the case develop in the same way on retrial, we think the photograph should not be received in evidence. If defendant admits he sold marijuana as charged, the only purpose we can see for thereafter introducing the picture would be to display to the jury defendant’s long hair and beard at the prior time, but defendant is not on trial for that.”

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