236 Or. App. 157 - State v. Shepherd’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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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. “We understand that ... we are 'responsible for identifying the correct interpretation [of a statute], whether or not asserted by the parties.' That responsibility arises, however, only when the parties have put the issue of statutory interpretation before us by disagreeing as to what a statute means ....”

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