43 Or. App. 13 - State v. Edmiston’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. “Generally, both the mother and father are ‘parents’ and are equally entitled to custody of the child. ORS 109.030. It follows that the father in this case is a lawful custodian unless and until his legal relationship to the child is altered by a court order or some provision of law. He had the power to authorize the defendant to assist him in obtaining custody. Any other construction of the statute would not ‘give fair warning of the nature of the conduct declared to constitute’ the offense of kidnapping, [footnote omitted]”

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