Hurd v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “1) how long the victim was restrained; 2) if the vietim was moved, how far and where the victim was taken; 3) whether, under the facts, the restraint exceeded what was necessary for the commission of the defendant's target crime; 4) whether the restraint significantly increased the risk of harm to the victim beyond the risk of harm inherent in the target crime itself; and 5) whether the restraint had some independent purpose, for example, whether the restraint made it significantly easier for the defendant to commit the target crime or made it significantly easier for the defendant to escape detection.”

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

2. “[the State [could] try Hurd again for this crime.”

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