State v. Miles’s Empirical Analysis

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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. “Although such commentaries are helpful in construing ambiguous statutory language, they do not supersede the plain language of a statute. Moreover, the commentary’s emphasis on proliferating drug laboratories and their employment of sophisticated technologists and chemists is not inconsistent with the statute’s plain language. The statute does include such laboratories within its purview, but that coverage is not inconsistent with the inclusion of repackaging facilities. Ubid.1”

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

2. “the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion or processing of a controlled dangerous substance or controlled substance analog, either directly or by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 268 N.J. Super. 250 - State v. Saez

3. “includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 268 N.J. Super. 250 - State v. Saez