State v. Busack’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “1. Whether the trial court abused its discretion in improperly joining the charges or failing to grant Thompson’s motion to sever? 2. Whether the trial court erred in failing to suppress evidence of an admission by Thompson? 3. Whether the trial court erred in denying Thompson’s motions to dismiss, for a judgment of acquittal, and for a new trial on the sexual contact charge where the only evidence supporting the charge was Thompson’s uncorroborated admission? ANALYSIS AND DECISION [¶ 13]1. Whether the trial court abused its discretion in improperly joining the charges or failing to grant Thompson’s motion to sever?”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Loftus · State v. Thompson

2. “Two or more offenses may be charged in the same indictment or information in separate counts for each offense, if the offenses charged, whether felonies or misdemeanors or both, are of the same or similar character or are based on the same act or transaction or on two or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or plan.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Loftus · State v. Thompson