Mueller v. Raemisch’s Empirical Analysis

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8 federal appellate · 14 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[l]abels don't control. A fine is a fine even if called a fee, and one basis for reclassifying a fee as a fine would be that it bore no relation to the cost for which the fee was ostensibly intended to compensate.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 4 Cal. 5th 1100 - People v. Ruiz · State v. Tabitha A. Scruggs

2. “an approximate relation to the cost it is meant to offset.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 381 Wis. 2d 661 - State v. Jamal L. Williams · State v. Tabitha A. Scruggs

3. “[t]he burden of proving that [a registration fee] is a fine is on the plaintiffs, and since they [had] presented no evidence that [the registration fee] was intended as a fine, they [could not] get to first base without evidence that [the fee] was grossly disproportionate to the annual cost of keeping track of a sex offender registrant — and they have presented no evidence of that either.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McGuire v. Strange · 381 Wis. 2d 661 - State v. Jamal L. Williams