Minnix v. Oklahoma’s Empirical Analysis

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15 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[I]t is within the province of the legislative body to define words appearing in legislative acts, and where an act passed by the legislature embodies a definition, it is binding on the courts. Traxler v. State , 96 Okl.Cr. 231 , 251 P.2d 815 [ (1952) ]. And as stated in 50 Am.Jur., Statutes, § 262 : 'Indeed, a statutory definition supersedes the commonly accepted, dictionary, or judicial definition. Where a statute contains its own definition of a term used therein, the term may not be given the meaning in which it is employed in another statute, although the two may be in pari material.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Green Country Physical Therapy L.P. v. Sylvester

2. ““You are instructed that a “serious bodily injury” has been inflicted upon a person so as to render the assault an aggravated assault when the injury is such that would give rise to apprehension of danger to life, to health or limb.””

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

3. ““A ‘serious bodily injury’ has been ■ inflicted upon a person assaulted so as • to render the assault an aggravated assault when the injury is such that would give rise to apprehension of danger to life, to health or limb.””

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