State v. Prier’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . the Missouri courts have ‘evinced a willingness to consider the question of whether a trial court has abused its discretion in denying a request for separate trials . . .’””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. McCrary · Webb v. State

2. ““(b) With the exception stated in (a) hereof, all offenses which are based on the same act or on two or more acts which are a part of the same transaction or on two or more acts or transactions which constitute parts of a common scheme or plan may be charged in the same indictment or information in separate counts, or in the same count where authorized by statute. Any indictment or information may contain counts for the different degrees of the same offense or for any one of such degrees.””

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

3. “`of the same or similar character,' language not found in Rule 24.04 ....”

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