People v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis

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20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The phrase `keep or maintain' implies usage with some degree of continuity that can be deduced by actual observation of repeated acts or circumstantial evidence, such as perhaps a secret compartment or the like, that conduces to the same conclusion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Wright

2. “Random House Webster's College Dictionary (1997);”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People v. Parks