State v. Vargas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]hen a jury returns guilty verdicts on two alternatively charged counts, a district court may enter only one conviction.”

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

2. “[a] district court has no authority to hold one of two convictions for alternatively charged counts in abeyance,”

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

3. “should merge by operation of law . . . and result in one conviction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Berkstresser