State v. LeClair’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. “(a) Report by Agreement of Important and Doubtful Questions. The court may, where the defendant and the State so agree, report any proceedings to the Law Court if it is of the opinion that any question of law is involved of sufficient importance and doubt to justify the same, provided that the decision thereof would in at least one alternative result in a final disposition of the action in favor of the defendant. (b) Report of Interlocutory Rulings. If the court is of the opinion that a question of law involved in an interlocutory order or ruling made by it in any action ought to be determined by the Law Court before any further proceedings are taken therein, it may, on motion of an aggrieved defendant, report the case to the Law Court for that purpose and stay a’ further proceedings except such as are necessary to preserve the rights of the parties without making any decision therein.”

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