Johnson, Manley Dewayne’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

47 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “an appellant is not prejudiced by the supplementation of the record under these circumstances because he or she need not object at trial to contest the imposition of court costs on direct appeal, and an appellant has a separate statutory remedy to correct erroneous or unsupportable costs.”

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

2. “When a specific amount of court costs is written in the judgment, an appellate court errs when it deletes the specific amount if there is a basis for the cost.”

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

3. “seek to effectuate the 'collective' intent or purpose of the legislators who enacted the legislation.”

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