People v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis

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27 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “€œWhen a fragmented Court decides a case and no single rationale explaining the result enjoys the assent of five Justices, the holding of the Court may be viewed as that position taken by those Members who concurred in the judgments on the narrowest grounds.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Verigan

2. “€œWe review jury instructions de novo to determine whether the instructions . . . accurately informed the jury of the governing law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Serra

3. “[P ]redicate offenses are those for which all of the elements must be proved in order to sustain a conviction for a greater offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Doubleday