State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. “given the court's and the parties' awareness of the precise issue that defendant articulates on appeal, there is no indication that development of the record was impaired because the court, rather than defendant, raised the issue”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 291 Or. App. 124 - State v. Roberts · 290 Or. App. 741 - State v. Miranda

2. “the trial court raised the issue sua sponte -in effect recharacterizing the issue and defendant's argument in order to address the theft by receiving charge more specifically-and the state responded at length before the trial court specifically ruled on that issue.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 291 Or. App. 124 - State v. Roberts