State v. Munnell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The Constitutions of the United States and the State of Minnesota guarantee that every person shall he free from arbitrary and intentional discrimination, but we have not found such discrimination in a law where there is sufficient distinction between two classes of persons to justify applying rules to one class not applicable to the other, where there is a reasonable basis for that distinction, and where the classification is relevant to the purpose of the law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stoffel v. Commissioner of Public Safety

2. “Whoever causes the death of a human being not constituting murder or manslaughter as a result of operating a vehicle * * * in a negligent manner while under the influence of alcohol, a controlled substance, or any combination of those elements * * * is guilty of criminal vehicular operation resulting in death.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re the Welfare of J.G.B.