State v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Taking a common sense view of the matter, we are simply not persuaded that the legislature intended separate prosecutions and punishments for possession of PCP and possession of marihuana where the two substances have been, for all practical purposes, irrevocably joined as one."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Satterfield v. State · Melton v. State

2. “As helpful as the various rules of statutory construction may be in determining legislative intent, perhaps the soundest guidance comes from the Supreme Court's admonition that we give the language of a statute a `commonsensical meaning.'”

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

3. “this is an instance where the possession of each item is simultaneous, yet they are entirely separate, and thus the possession of each clearly constitutes a separate offense.”

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