68 Or. App. 642 - State v. Soriano’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “would not[] prevent the use of his testimony to search out other testimony to be used in evidence against him or his property, in a criminal proceeding in such court. It could not prevent the obtaining and the use of witnesses and evidence which should be attributable directly to the testimony he might give under compulsion, and on which he might be convicted, when otherwise, and if he had refused to answer, he could not possibly have been convicted.”

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

2. “a United States Supreme Court majority is no more binding * * * than a U.S. Supreme Court minority, a decision of the Supreme Courts of Hawaii, California, or Georgia, or a well-reasoned law review article. Judicial opinions from other jurisdictions are helpful in interpreting the Oregon Constitution to the extent that their reasoning is persuasive * * *.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 76 Or. App. 301 - State v. Mills

3. “We see no reason to construe the Oregon Constitution to give protection from testifying but not from furnishing evidence.”

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