People v. Nutt’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 18 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “No person shall be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. People v. Davis · People v. Smith

2. “A constitution is made for the people and by the people. The interpretation that should be given it is that which reasonable minds, the great mass of the people themselves, would give it. "For as the Constitution does not derive its force from the convention which framed, but from the people who ratified it, the intent to be arrived at is that of the people, and it is not to be supposed that they have looked for any dark or abstruse meaning in the words employed, but rather that they have accepted them in the sense most obvious to the common understanding, and ratified the instrument in the belief that that was the sense designed to be conveyed." [Cooley, A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations (Little, Brown, & Co., 1886), p. 81 (citation omitted).]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Davis · People v. Smith

3. “"[Const. 1963, art. 1, § 15] is a revision of Sec. 14, Article II, of the present constitution. The new language of the first sentence involves the substitution of the double jeopardy provision from the U.S. Constitution in place of the present provision which merely prohibits `acquittal on the merits.' This is more consistent with the actual practice of the courts in Michigan." [ Nutt, supra at 590 , 677 N.W.2d 1 .]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. People v. Davis · People v. Smith