State v. Gurreh’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 16 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The purpose of statutory construction is to give effect to the intended purpose of the legislature. . . . If the language is plain and unambiguous, we need look no further than the words actually used because we assume that the language expresses the legislature's intent.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Robinson, No. Cr99-0099216 (Mar. 22, 2001) · State v. Franklin, No. Mv 99 0203450s (May 7, 2001)

2. “Our Supreme Court has opined that "[i]n our assessment of whether the statute passes constitutional muster, we proceed from the well recognized jurisprudential principle that [t]he party attacking a validly enacted CT Page 4025 statute . . . bears the heavy burden of proving its unconstitutionality beyond a reasonable doubt and we indulge in every presumption in favor of the statute's constitutionality. . . . The constitutional injunction that is commonly referred to as the void for vagueness doctrine embodies two central precepts: the right to fair warning of the effect of a governing statute or regulation and the guarantee against standardless law enforcement. . . . Thus, [i]n order to surmount a vagueness challenge, a statute [must] afford a person of ordinary intelligence a reasonable opportunity to know what is permitted or prohibited.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Robinson, No. Cr99-0099216 (Mar. 22, 2001)

3. “Not only is 'tetrahydrocannabinols' listed, but 'marijuana' from which it is derived is also listed by name. Not only is 'psilocin' listed, but the psilocybin mushroom from which it is derived is also listed. Not only is 'mescaline' listed, but the ‘peyote cactus' from which it is derived is also listed. Not only is 'opium' listed but ‘opium poppy' and 'poppy straw' and 'concentrate of poppy straw’ are listed. Not only is cocaine prohibited, but 'coca leaves’ are also specifically prohibited.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 152 Ohio App. 3d 311 - State v. Samatar