State v. Clifton’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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a world where people gather on the neighborhood block and hang out. They look for action. They recognize people by sight, know them only by nickname, [do] a little drinking, find some marijuana, smoke a little marijuana, see who is partying, see who’s hanging. I’m not saying that that’s the life of everybody in that area, of course. But there are some folks who do go there and hang out. It’s a world, at least to some extent, where some people don’t trust the system and don’t call the police when they see somebody with a gun. They don’t run from trouble but almost seem to flirt with it or at least co-exist with it.”

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

2. “I thought about you as jurors and how different your lives may be from the lives and the lifestyles of many of the people who testified before you and from the victim, Steven Nix.... It may be a different lifestyle and different world, but it’s a world where many of the witnesses in this case reside. It’s their reality. ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ The witnesses who saw Steven Nix get murdered * * * deserve the same considerations as any other person, the same standards, the same rules, the same consideration. They [may] look different, they may perhaps sound different. Their lifestyles may be perhaps different, it doesn’t matter.”

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

3. “prophylactically or in the interests of justice”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Bj-M.