State v. Worsham’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “1. A person commits the crime of making a false report if he knowingly: (1) Gives false information to a law enforcement officer for the purpose of implicating another person in a crime; or (2) Makes a false report to a law enforcement officer that a crime has occurred or is about to occur; [[Image here]] 2. It is a defense to a prosecution under subsection 1 of this section that the actor retracted the false statement or report before the law enforcement officer or any other person took substantial action in reliance thereon. 3. The defendant shall have the burden of injecting the issue of retraction under subsection 2 of this section. 4. Making a false report is a class B misdemeanor.”

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

2. “It is well-settled that in order to preserve a constitutional question for review it must be raised at the first available opportunity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. St. Louis County v. McClune