37 Or. App. 131 - State v. House’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"In light of the present criminal procedure code the accusatory instrument has lost much of its historical significance as a means of notifying defendant of the crime charged. * * * As a result, the trend in Oregon has been to require less specificity in the accusatory instrument. See State v. Keys, 25 Or. App. 15 , 548 P.2d 205 rev. den. (1976). * * * If the complaint, read in conjunction with the statutory definition of the terms used, informs the defendant of the elements of the offense with which he is charged it is sufficient."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 47 Or. App. 937 - City of Portland v. Aziz

2. ““The State is not required to repeat statutory definitions of the terms used in the accusatory instrument. Those definitions are incorporated by the use of the terms. Inclusion of the word “knowingly” in the complaint is surplusage and does not affect the sufficiency of the complaint.””

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