State v. Dennis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 60 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The conduct with which the defense of entrapment is concerned is the manufacturing of crime by law enforcement officials and their agents. Such conduct, of course, is far different from the permissible stratagems involved in the detection and prevention of crime. Thus before the issue of entrapment can fairly be said to have been presented in a criminal prosecution there must have been at least some showing of the kind of conduct by government agents which may well have induced the accused to commit the crime charged.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. García

2. “[e]ven if counsel made strategy miscalculations or trial mistakes, `if our adversary system is to function at all effectively, these may not be permitted to impair the binding nature of the proceedings, except in those rare instances where they are of such magnitude as to thwart the fundamental guarantee of fair trial.'”

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

3. “does not preclude traps for unwary criminals,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 90 N.J. Super. 105 - State v. Johnson