State v. Lichty’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “she was saying that she saw a transparent bag, small enough to be put in a wallet, that contained a white powdery substance.”

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

2. “`[p]eople often speak in the shorthand of opinions or conclusions, not in the form of a recitation of pure fact'”

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