People v. Behlog’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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

1. “This appeal only involves application of the new law to prosecutions before sentence, not to final cases or cases on direct review. Thus, it does not involve “retroactivity” in the classic sense (see, Matter of Mulligan v. Murphy, 14 N.Y.2d 223, 227 , 250 N.Y.S.2d 412 , 199 N.E.2d 496 [ (N.Y. 1964) ]; Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314 , 107 S.Ct. 708 , 93 L.Ed.2d 649 [ (Ky. 1987) ]). However, because the cases use the terms “retroactively” or “retroactive”, for ease of discussion those terms will be used in the opinion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Reis