State v. Newman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If the driver ... loses consciousness with the result that he runs over a pedestrian, ... a prior voluntary act, such as the act of driving, ... may ... be regarded as sufficient [ ] ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Colorado, DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES and Parks and Wildlife Commission and Division of Parks and Wildlife v. 5 STAR FEEDLOT, INC.

2. “[t]hat definition associates consciousness with a wakeful state and implies that a person in a state of sleep cannot execute a conscious action”

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

3. “Webster's Third New Int'l Dictionary 921 (unabridged ed. 2002).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 291 Or. App. 829 - Coos Cnty. Airport Dist. v. Special Districts Ins. Servs. Trust of the Special Districts Ass'n of Or.