State v. Berg’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 17 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Legislatures may pass laws regulating, within reasonable limits, the mode in which rights secured to the subject by bills of right and constitutions shall be enjoyed, and if the subject neglects to comply with these regulations he thereby waives his constitutional privileges.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. State · 255 So. 3d 154 - Birkhead v. State

2. ““The district court has original jurisdiction of such criminal prosecutions only as are punishable by a fine of more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment for more than thirty days. Such charges are presented on indictments or on county attorney’s informations and such offenses are commonly known as indictable offenses. Code section 13644 [now section 769.1]. Indictable offenses include all felonies and also indictable misdemeanors (punishable by a fine of more than one hundred dollars or more than thirty days’ imprisonment in jail). See Code sections 12890, 12894 [now sections 687.2 and 687.7]; Article I, section 11, Constitution of Iowa. “Misdemeanors for which the penalty does not exceed one hundred dollars or thirty days in jail are called nonindictable misdemeanors. Frequently they are referred to as minor offenses or petty offenses. Justice-of-the-peace courts and certain other inferior courts or courts of limited jurisdiction have jurisdiction of nonindictable offenses but not of trials of indictable misdemeanors nor of felonies. Code, chapter 627 [now chapter 762]. The district court does not have original jurisdiction of non-indictable offenses. “Municipal courts (Code, chapter 475) [now chapter 602] have jurisdiction to try indictable misdemeanors and also non-indictable misdemeanors. * *”

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

3. “In the case at bar the municipal court rule does not abridge, limit, or modify the constitutional right of an accused to trial by jury. Such right remains inviolate. The rule merely provides an orderly procedure by which the right may be exercised if the accused so elects.”

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