State v. Denis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Because this court has already reviewed the trial judge’s ruling on the motion to suppress the evidence, we will not again review the same ruling based upon the same evidence. Therefore, the defendant’s guilty plea should be set aside. According to the Crosby case: ‘If we are not able to afford the accused their bargained-for appellate rei-vew, we must set aside the guilty pleas. The plea could not therefor be characterized as voluntary, because of the non-performance of the plea bargain (or the impossibility of the state to perform it) by virtue of which the plea was obtained.’ Prior to the first ruling of this court in which the trial judge’s granting of the defendant’s motion to suppress was reversed, the defendant filed a brief in opposition to the state’s application and was given the opportunity to present additional briefing and oral argument. Therefore, because the defendant has already been afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard and because no new evidence has surfaced since the first ruling by this court, we conclude that the trial judge erred in accepting a Crosby plea from the defendant in this case.””

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