Eckl v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “With the approval of the court and the consent of the prosecuting attorney, a defendant may enter a conditional plea of guilty or nolo contendré [contendere], reserving in writing the right, on appeal from the judgment, to review of an adverse determination of a pretrial motion to suppress evidence. If the defendant prevails on appeal, he shall be allowed to withdraw his plea.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tabor v. State · Mangrum v. State

2. “Unlike some of the civil statutes of limitation which are waived unless pleaded, this limitation of prosecution statute (§ 43-1602, supra) is jurisdictional. Under the express wording of the statute that “No person shall be prosecuted, tried and punished for any felony unless an indictment be found within three years after the commission of the offense,” after three years (unless the running of the statute is tolled) a court is without power to try the case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 69 Ark. App. 121 - Scott v. State