State v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis

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24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “As a general rule, the express mention of a certain power or authority within a statute implies the exclusion of non-expressed powers. [Citation omitted.] Because the legislature expressly authorized the imposition of the costs of court-appointed defense counsel as a “reasonable condition” and did not provide for j corresponding authority regarding prosecution legal fees, we ] conclude that the legislature did not intend to authorize the imposition of prosecution legal fees as a condition of a suspended j sentence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Harris v. Smartt