76 Cal. App. 4th 199 - People v. Ewing’s Empirical Analysis

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20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “That case involved a covenant of a lease that the lessee would not do on the leased premises anything which might grow to the annoyance, nuisance, grievance, or damage of the lessor or the inhabitants of adjoining houses. Construing this part of the Lease, Lord Justice Cotton said: The [judges] must decide not upon what their own individual thoughts are, but on what, in their opinion and upon the evidence before them, would be an annoyance or grievance to reasonable, sensible people; ... It is not sufficient in order to bring the case within the words of the covenant, for the plaintiffs to show that a particular man objects to what is done, but we must be satisfied by argument and by evidence, that reasonable people, having regard to the ordinary use of a house for pleasurable enjoyment, would be annoyed or aggrieved by what is being done.”

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

2. “An example [of an enhancement is] subdivision (a) of section 12022.7, which provides that any person who personally inflicts great bodily injury in the commission of a felony [8] Subdivision (a) of section 646.9 provides that those elements are: "(1) repeatedly following or harassing another person, and (2) making a credible threat (3) with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear of death or great bodily injury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 153 Cal. App. 4th 358 - People v. Muhammad

3. “a knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a specific person that seriously alarms, annoys, torments, or terrorizes the person, and that severs no legitimate purpose.”

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