State v. Ochoa’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 104 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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “may be as broad and varied as are the means of communicating thought from one individual to another; by acts, conduct, words, signs, or by any means sufficient to incite, encourage or instigate commission of the offense or calculated to make known that commission of an offense already undertaken has the aider’s support or approval.”

   9 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Valdez v. Bravo · State v. Hermosillo

2. “* * * To be an aider or abettor, one must share the criminal intent of the principal. There must be a community of purpose, a partnership, in the unlawful undertaking. * * *”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Torres · State v. Phillips

3. ““The question always presented by such a motion (for severance) is whether a jury can properly weigh the testimony upon the various issues which may arise. ‘The decision of the trial court rendered before the trial is dictated by reasonable anticipation based on the facts then disclosed. The decision of this court rendered upon a review of the trial itself rests upon determination of whether the prophesy has been realized.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Turnbow