3 Or. App. 120 - State v. Spicer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Neither justice nor its administration is a game. Nor is the judge just an umpire. Rather, the judicial process is that procedure within an ordered society through which its previously expressed will is first determined and then imposed. In deciding a factual issue in an individual case, its highest purpose is to seek the truth within the established rules. * * * * * * When in the discharge of its responsibilities the court finds it reasonably necessary to direct the production of evidence not offered by one of the parties or to question a witness, it has both the right, and, upon occasion, the duty to do so.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 534 So. 2d 175 - Harrison v. State

2. “"We think furthermore that the ease of destruction of narcotics and the likelihood that one trafficking illegally therein would seek to do so, not to mention the possible danger to officers, were indeed exigent circumstances." 3 Or. App. at 127 , 473 P.2d 147 . (Emphasis added.)”

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