State v. Fernandes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “were the focus of the United States Supreme Court in Kent v. United States, 383 U.S. 541 , 86 S.Ct. 1045 , 16 L.Ed.2d 84 (1966), which we have interpreted as holding `that if a statute vests a juvenile with the right to juvenile status, then that right constitutes a liberty interest, of which the juvenile may not be deprived without due process; i.e., notice and a hearing.'”

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

2. “[O]nce a state provides its citizens with certain statutory rights beyond those secured by the constitution itself, the constitution forbids the state from depriving individuals of those statutory rights without due process of law.”

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

3. “Established wisdom counsels us to exercise self-restraint so as to eschew unnecessary determinations of constitutional questions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schumann v. Dianon Systems, Inc.