People v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. “[a] trial court may, in its discretion, reconsider and reverse a prior ruling if it determines that 'its former ruling is no longer sound because of changed conditions, it needs to correct its previous ruling because of a legal or factual error, an intervening change in the law has occurred, or manifest injustice would result from its original ruling.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Young · People v. Schaufele

2. “[Blecause defendant claimed a lack of knowledge, evidence that she had previously supplied methamphetamine to her roommate tended to make more probable than not that she was indeed aware of the methamphetamine in her bedroom dresser.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Pollard

3. “prior relevant rulings made in the same case are to be followed unless such application would result in error or unless the ruling is no longer sound due to changed conditions”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Quintano