Raigosa v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 29 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In dealing with probable cause, however, as the very name implies, we deal with probabilities. These are not technical; they are the factual and practical considerations of everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act. The standard of proof is accordingly correlative to what must be proved.” The facts and circumstances considered need not amount to proof of guilt, or even to prima facie evidence of guilt but must be more than bare suspicion.”

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

2. “"You are instructed that where an accused is the sole witness of a transaction charged as a crime, as in this case, her testimony cannot be arbitrarily rejected, and if her credibility has not been impeached, and her testimony is not improbable and is not inconsistent with the facts and circumstances shown, but is reasonably consistent therewith, then her testimony should be accepted. * * *"”

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

3. “(a) Appearance Before the Commissioner. An officer making an arrest under a warrant issued upon a complaint or any person making an arrest without a warrant shall take the arrested person without unnecessary delay before the nearest available commissioner. When a person arrested without a warrant is brought before a commissioner, a complaint shall be filed forthwith.”

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