State v. Breese’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[The defendant first denied that the bag (and therefore the scale within) was his, next admitted that it did belong to him, and finally stated that his sister was the person who had packed the bag. [The defendant admitted that he had been using methamphetamine and that he was high when [the deputy] conducted his search. Perhaps more tellingly, [the defendant tells the officer he is not selling any methamphetamine when [the deputy] had not even mentioned that possibility. [The defendant also admits that he had actual possession of the bag.”

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