People v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the court must give the advice or make the inquiries necessary to rectify the error and then give the defendant the opportunity to elect to allow the plea and sentence to stand or to withdraw the plea.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 321 Mich. App. 609 - People of Michigan v. Edward Duane Pointer-Bey · 322 Mich. App. 105 - People of Michigan v. James Daniel Seadorf

2. “[a] defendant seeking to withdraw his or her plea after sentencing must demonstrate a defect in the plea-taking process.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 321 Mich. App. 609 - People of Michigan v. Edward Duane Pointer-Bey · 322 Mich. App. 105 - People of Michigan v. James Daniel Seadorf

3. “A person who persuades, induces, entices, coerces, causes, or knowingly allows a child to engage in a child sexually abusive activity for the purpose of producing any child sexually abusive material, or a person who arranges for, produces, makes , copies , reproduces, or finances, or a person who attempts or prepares or conspires to arrange for, produce, make , copy , reproduce, or finance any child sexually abusive activity or child sexually abusive material for personal, distributional, or other purposes is guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment for not more than 20 years, or a fine of not more than $100,000.00, or both, if that person knows, has reason to know, or should reasonably be expected to know that the child is a child or that the child sexually abusive material includes a child or that the depiction constituting the child sexually abusive material appears to include a child, or that person has not taken reasonable precautions to determine the age of the child. [Emphasis added.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 322 Mich. App. 105 - People of Michigan v. James Daniel Seadorf