State v. Lazarovich’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If a justice of the peace, a public judicial officer, vested with judicial power, is not a ‘court,’ within the meaning of the act (intimidating a witness in a cause pending in a court), when transacting judicial business over which he has jurisdiction by law, we are at a loss to know what he is. If he is not presiding in a ‘cause,’ when he hears and determines matters coming before him under the law in preliminary investigations of the commission of felonies, we know not by what name to characterize such proceedings.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Encinias

2. ““It is contended by counsel for appellant that it was error to admit the testimony of the sheriff that he served a subpoena upon Mike Pabor. But the proposition is not properly before the court, because the testimony was adduced without objection having been made in apt time. After its introduction, counsel for appellant moved that it be stricken. Under such circumstances, it was a' matter for the exercise of the discretion of the trial court as to whether the testimony should be stricken.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Snyder

3. ““ * * * a suit, litigation, or action of any kind, civil or criminal, contested before a court of justice. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Scott v. Newsom