State v. Johnson’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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We would hardly be consistent to now conclude that even though a tribal member is not required to have a driver’s license at all while driving on a tribal reservation, driving after revocation of a license should be an offense that rises to the level of a “heightened public policy” concern.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Losh · State v. Busse

2. “Obviously the prior offense carries its own sanction based upon the severity of the conduct. As each offense is triggered by different and unrelated conduct, the issue might then arise whether fairness should dictate that the nature of the subsequent offense, for purposes of the Stone analysis, not be measured by the nature of the prior offense, because if it were the offender could be subject to being sanctioned twice for the prior offense.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Losh · State v. Busse

3. “Id. In this case, Losh was found guilty of the same offense as was at issue in Johnson , driving after revocation in violation of Minn.Stat. § 171.24, subd. 2. Our holding in Johnson should thus compel a holding here that the charged offense is civil/regulatory.”

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