People v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 17 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]f any provision of a statute is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional, the remaining provisions of the statute are valid, unless it appears to the court that the valid provisions of the statute are so essentially and inseparably connected with, and so dependent upon, the void provision that it cannot be presumed the legislature would have enacted the valid provisions without the void one; or unless the court determines that the valid provisions, standing alone, are incomplete and are incapable of being executed in accordance with the legislative intent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Heitzman

2. ““(1) The criminal sexual assault offenses of this part 4 [unlawful sexual behavior] shall not apply to acts between persons who are married, either statutorily, putatively, or by common law. (2) The criminal sexual assault offenses of this part 4 shall apply to spouses living apart, with the intent to live apart, whether or not under a decree of judicial separation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Flowers

3. “[TJhe defendant's burden is not to persuade this Court that the [law] is unwise, but that it is totally lacking in reason.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Goodale