State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 13 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “ensure that true predatory offenders cannot plead out of the registration requirements ....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bedeau v. Evans · Thibodeaux v. Evans

2. “arising out of the same set of circumstances.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bedeau v. Evans · Thibodeaux v. Evans

3. “[W]e are not insensitive to the very basic question appellant raises — why should one be required to register as a predatory offender based upon a conviction arising out of the same set of circumstances as a charged predatory offense when that predatory offense charge is supported ... only by that lowest of thresholds, probable cause? Separation of powers dictates that this question be addressed to the legislative branch of government, however.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Minnesota v. Rickford Rehmann Munger