Fernandes v. Fernandes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “neither necessary nor profitable to consider at this time whether upon any of the evidence adduced or upon the present record a correct adjudication of guilt could have been made. It will be sufficient to consider the legality of the judgment and the sentence[, if subsequently appealed,] when the lower court shall comply with the requirements of the statute by stating the particular circumstances of the offense as it finds them from the evidence.”

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