State v. Mejia’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he Legislature intend[ed] . . . the provisions of [the] act related to comparability of an out-of-jurisdiction offense . . . be liberally construed to allow comparable offenses, regardless of whether the elements are identical to or narrower than the corresponding Kansas offense, to be included in a person's criminal history,”

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

2. “(j) For the purposes of determining whether an offense is comparable, the following shall be considered: (1) The name of the out-of-jurisdiction offense; (2) the elements of the out-of-jurisdiction offense; and (3) whether the out-of-jurisdiction offense prohibits similar conduct to the conduct prohibited by the closest approximate Kansas offense.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Myers · State v. Patton

3. “'conviction' includes: . . . conviction of a violation of . . . any law of another jurisdiction that would constitute an offense that is comparable to the offense described in subsection (i)(1) or (i)(2).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Myers · State v. Myers