Deegan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

34 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Except at a time when direct appellate relief is available, a person convicted of a crime, who claims that ... the conviction obtained or the sentence or other disposition made violated the person’s rights under the Constitution or laws of the United States or of the state ... may commence a proceeding to secure relief by filing a petition in the district court in the county in which the conviction was had to vacate and set aside the judgment....”

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

2. “a convicted defendant is entitled to at least one right of review by an appellate or post-conviction court.” However, Knaffla was referring to the statutory procedures for review of a criminal conviction, particularly under the postconviction review process in Minn. Stat. ch. 590, not to a constitutional guarantee of one review. In fact, Knaffla stated that postconviction relief should be predicated on”

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

3. “Because a first review by postconviction proceeding in Minnesota is substantially similar to a direct appeal, and appears to differ from first review by postconviction proceedings in other jurisdictions, it may well be that the right to one review— through either direct appeal or postcon-viction proceeding — is a “tradition unique to Minnesota.””

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