State v. Monk’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The State must prove all of the following elements of Forgery in Count I: 1. On or about the 18th day of November, 1993, the defendant uttered an Iowa Trust & Savings Bank check on the account of Clinton Ross. 2. Without Clinton Ross’s authority, the defendant made the writing appear to be the act of Clinton Ross. 3. a. The defendant specifically intended to defraud K’s Merchandise, or b. The defendant knew the uttering of said check would facilitate a fraud.”

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

2. “Although it is not necessary that the court’s definitional instruction contain precisely the language of the statute, the instruction must be a correct statement of the law and the instructions as a whole should adequately and correctly cover the substance of the requested instruction.”

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