State v. Vail’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. “Minnesota's law requires proof of the actual identity of the substance, the defendant's belief is not sufficient.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Knoch · 388 So. 2d 254 - Turner v. State

2. “1. The amount of the [agreed] sale amounting to 220 pounds. 2. The sale price amounting to $120 per pound. 3. The statement of the Defendant * * ⅜ quoted by the State’s witness * * * identifying the product as not only marijuana, but identifying the product as ‘Mexican grade’ marijuana. 4. The inferred fact * * * that a seller of a product containing 220 pounds is probably sophisticated and competent and alert enough to have made his own tests before he himself bought the product for presumably a considerable sum of money from his supplier. Whether that task was simply smoking the product in order to test the substance or whether the product was otherwise analyzed is, of course, unknown to the court.”

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

3. ““The board of pharmacy shall place a substance in Schedule II if it finds that the substance has: A high potential for abuse, currently accepted medical use in the United States, or currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions, and that abuse may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence.””

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