State v. Beck’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In the trial of a criminal case, the [prosecutor] occupies a quasi-judicial position. While it is his duty vigorously and fearlessly to prosecute in behalf of the state, yet he is also chargeable with the duty to see that the defendant gets a fair trial and he must not knowingly prejudice the right of the defendant to a fair trial by injecting into the case prejudicial and incompetent matters.”

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

2. “The nature of the substance Mrs. Klocke possessed and whether her possession was legal or illegal was utterly irrelevant to the existence of an open briefcase containing 14 bags of marijuana in the back seat of dependant's automobile.”

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