State v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is immaterial whether the instrument is accepted as true; ‘[t]o utter as used in a statute proscribing forgery and counterfeiting means to offer, whether accepted or not, a forged instrument with the representation by words or actions, that the same is genuine.’”

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

2. “Production of the prosecutor’s file will constitute substantial compliance with the Rules of Criminal Discovery unless the defendant’s discovery request encompasses discoverable items “not within the file.””

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