Spector v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

43 state decisions

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

1. ““[T]he specific official duties or acts of Noren which the defendants ‘allegedly influenced or sought to influence by the payment of the alleged bribe’; ‘(t)he specific influence, which the payment of the aforesaid bribe had or was intended to have upon the official duties of ... Noren’; ‘(t)he manner in which the State contends there was any deviation from what it maintains was the proper conduct by ... Noren of his official duties as any such alleged deviations relates [sic] to the charges contained’ in the respective indictments; the identity of ‘those individuals employed by any governmental agency or unit who had authority with regard to the matters complained of in the indictment concerning the exercise by ... Noren of his official duties,’ with an indication as to ‘the nature of the authority reposed in each such individual and whether that authority was exercised or was to be exercised in any manner in connection with the indictment charged and, if so, in what manner’; the date of the document or documents evidencing the payment of the sums in question, ‘stating if the alleged payment was made by check, whose signature appears on the check’ together with the identity of the custodian of the document; and the date of the document or documents evidencing the performance or contemplated performance of Noren’s official duties allegedly influenced or intended to be influenced by the giving of and his receipt of a bribe together with the identity of the custodian of the doc”

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

2. ““The answers filed by the State in response to the demands of the defendants for discovery included listing the names and addresses of all witnesses the State proposed to call, among whom were the three individuals whose applications before the board were involved in the alleged bribery scheme here. The indictment set forth the approximate dates and amounts of each payment. The file which the defendants were privileged to examine would have revealed the checks in the amounts of the alleged bribes. The particulars specified the duties of Noren. We find no abuse of discretion by the trial court in denying the motion for particulars.””

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

3. ““1. Part of the duties of Donald H. Noren, as an Assistant Attorney General assigned to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene was to represent that Department before the Board of Review which determined whether grounds existed upon which to base the granting of exceptions to any moratoriums handed down by the Department. It was Mr. Noren’s duties before the Board of Review that Mr. Spector and Mr. Wyatt influenced or sought to influence[,]””

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