State v. Hale’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * merely to operate [ a motor vehicle] outside of a municipality at a speed greater than 50 miles an hour is not a violation of the law that being only prima facie and the other provisions of the statute must be met as every person is presumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of all the essential elements of the crime charged.” 109 N.E.2d at 590 .”

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