State v. Hyde’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “(1) raise the constitutional issue at the first possible opportunity, (2) specifically designate the constitutional provision claimed to have been violated by expressed reference to the article and section of the Constitution or by quoting the provision itself, (3) state the facts showing the violation, (4) preserve the constitutional question throughout for appellate review.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. West · State v. Knifong

2. ““A truth or proposition drawn from another which is supposed or admitted to be true. A process of reasoning by which a fact or proposition sought to be established is deduced as a logical consequence from other facts, or a state of facts, already proved or admitted. A logical and reasonable conclusion of a fact not presented by direct evidence but which, by process of logic and reason, a trier of fact may conclude exists from the established facts.””

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