Banta v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

44 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'The rule of lenity ... applies only when, after consulting traditional canons of statutory construction, we are left with an ambiguous statute.'”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 297 Ga. App. 54 - Lightning v. State · State v. Hudson

2. “. . . knowingly and willfully falsifies ... a material fact; makes a false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or makes or uses any false writing or document, knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry, in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of state government or of the government of any county, city, or other political subdivision of this state. . . . 15”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Robert Trim v. State · Haley v. State

3. “This is not a case in which the prosecutor’s decision to consider [Appellant’s] act to be criminal and to be a proper subject of prosecution is made only because of the act’s consequence. [Cit.] Rather, [Appellant’s] act was criminal when he [provided the pre-signed prescription forms to his nurse practitioner], without regard to the result of that act. . . . “[T]he fact that application of the statute’s standards sometimes requires an assessment of the surrounding circumstances to determine if the statute is violated does not render it unconstitutional. [Cit.]” [Cits.]”

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