Parmenter v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"At the examination the magistrate must, in the first place, read to the defendant the complaint on file before him. He must, also, after the commencement of the prosecution, issue subpoenaes for any witness required by the prosecutor or the defendant. " (Emphasis ours.)”

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

2. “When a defendant has been held to answer a charge for a public offense, the defendant or the State of Oklahoma may either before or after indictment or information, have witnesses examined conditionally on his behalf as prescribed in this article, and not otherwise.”

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

3. ““A preliminary hearing is not a trial, since it is not conducted to determine the guilt of accused, but only the two issues — was a crime committed, and is there probable cause to believe the accused committed it.””

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