Guy v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The identity between the name in the extradition document and the name in the governor’s warrant establishes a pri-ma facie case that the person charged as a fugitive is indeed the fugitive sought by the demanding state.... Once a pri-ma facie showing of identity is made, the person charged as a fugitive must carry the burden of disproving the presumed identity.... Clear and convincing evidence must be shown by the accused that he is not the person sought in order to rebut the prima facie showing of identity....””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Beverly v. Davis