Hynes v. Karassik’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The statute serves the laudable goal of insuring that one who is charged but not convicted of an offense suffers no stigma as a result of his having once been the object of an unsustained accusation. That detriment to one’s reputation and employment prospects often flows from merely having been subjected to criminal process has long been recognized as a serious and unfortunate by-product of even unsuccessful criminal prosecutions (cites omitted). The statute’s design is to lessen such consequences (see Governor’s Approval Memorandum, N.Y.Legis. Ann., 1976, p. 408 (additional cite omitted) ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 611 F. Supp. 481 - Anderson v. City of New York

2. “Upon the termination of a criminal action or proceeding against a person in favor of such a person ... all official records and papers ... relating to the arrest or prose cution [shall be sealed, and shall not be] made available to any person or public or private agency ... but only to the person accused or to such person’s designated agent. 22”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Crosby v. City of New York