Doran v. State’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. “depends upon the intent of the legislature in enacting the statutes creating the offenses.”

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

2. “the absence of some indication that the legislature had a contrary intent.”

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