State v. Weigle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “twice violated § 45-5-104, MCA, which provides in pertinent part: ’[a] person commits the offense of negligent homicide if he negligently causes the death of another human being.’ There is no question that, since two people were killed in the collision, two distinct offenses were committed. ’When the same transaction may establish the commissions of more than one offense, a person charged with the conduct may be prosecuted for each offense.’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. DeWitt

2. “although each count of negligent homicide alleged a violation of the same statute by the same act, each count required proof of an additional fact that the other count did not, namely the death of the particular victim.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. DeWitt