John v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[S]o many of our decisions are unpublished that, given enough time and enough change of personnel, the court `forgets' we issued those decisions.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Uyesugi · McCoy v. State

2. “copies of [Court of Appeals] memorandum decisions have always [been distributed] to essentially every judge and lawyer who regularly practices criminal law in this state”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. McCoy v. State

3. “our memorandum decisions are now readily available on the Internet”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. McCoy v. State