Green v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[I]t is a general rule in the interpretation of statutes that provisions of an original act which are repeated in an amendment are considered as a continuation of the original act. Such provisions are construed not as imposing a new requirement, but merely as continuing the original one, unless a contrary legislative intent is indicated.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Fyfe · Tuckfield v. State

2. “No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bachner v. Pearson · Alvarado v. State

3. “The term ‘due process of law’ is not susceptible of precise definition or reduction to a mathematical formula. But in the course of judicial decisions it has come to express a basic concept of justice under law, such as ‘our traditional conception of fair play and substantial justice’ the ‘protection of the individual from arbitrary action’, ‘fundamental principles of liberty and justice’, whether there has been a ‘[denial of] fundamental fairness, shocking to the universal sense of justice’, ‘that whole community sense of “decency and fairness” that has been woven by common experience into the fabric of acceptable conduct’, and a ‘respect for those personal immunities which * * * are “so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental”, * * * or are “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.” ’ (Citations omitted.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bachner v. Pearson