State v. Weaver’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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. “"[I]n the Alaska Statute on prohibited weapons, the term `gravity knife' is used in conjunction with `switchblade knife.' The ordinary person is therefore put on notice that a `gravity knife' must be similar to a switchblade in operating automatically or semi-automatically. The pertinent characteristics which a switchblade and a gravity knife have in common are that they are easily concealed and quickly brought to bear. These characteristics are indicative of knives which are used as weapons rather than tools. Some utility knives are quickly brought to bear, such as a fishing knife or hunting knife in a sheath, but are not easily concealed. Indeed, it is only when these utility knives are concealed that their possession is unlawful. An ordinary pocket knife may be concealed upon the person. However, an ordinary pocket knife is incapable of being quickly brought to bear."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Strange · State v. Riddall