State v. Rubino’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The defense of unlawful entrapment is not established if the Defendant was ready and willing to violate the law, and the law enforcément officers or their agents merely afforded him the opportunity of committing the crime. Under these circumstances, entrapment is lawful rather than unlawful, even though the law enforcement — even though the law officers may have used a ruse or concealed their identity.”

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

2. ““Although the 1974 Recommended Arizona Jury Instruction concerning entrapment which eliminates the use of the ‘unlawful’ term is seemingly better, its inclusion did not render the instruction an incorrect statement of the law, and here it is not error.” 531 P.2d at 192 .”

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