Louro v. State’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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a]n applicant who is indigent shall be entitled to be represented by the public defender. If the public defender is excused from representing the applicant because of a conflict of interest or is otherwise unable to provide representation, the court shall assign counsel to represent the applicant.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kyle Campbell v. State of Rhode Island · Ricardo Hernandez v. State of Rhode Island

2. ““[T]he General Assembly did not intend that applicants for post-conviction relief would be entitled, at public expense, to have legal counsel appointed to represent them in connection with their appeals from dismissals of successive applications for post-conviction relief when the Public Defender has concluded, after conducting preliminary investigations of the merits of such appeals, that they lack a reasonable likelihood of success. In these circumstances, we hold, such applicants have been afforded all the legal representation by the Public Defender that the statute requires and they are not entitled to have other counsel at the public’s expense assigned to represent their interests in further prosecuting such appeals.” Louro, 740 A.2d at 344 .”

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