State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis

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1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “assaults and batteries and other breaches of the peace of a high and aggravated nature [used in the Act]. . . [did not] create a new and distinct offense of that character; but rather, [the term] indicate[s] a class of cases of which the court of general sessions had jurisdiction.”

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