State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “rw]e are mindful of our power to save a statute from unconstitutionality by imposing on it a limiting construction. This power permits us to uphold an otherwise questionable statute by tailoring it to conform to the Constitution, which is what we must presume the legislature intended.... [W]e hold that the statute must be read to preclude prosecutors from using any information gained as a result of a stamp purchaser's compliance with the tax statute to establish a link in the chain of evidence in a subsequent drug prosecution. With such a reading, the scope of the resulting immunity is broad enough to satisfy the requirements of the Fifth Amendment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 196 Wis. 2d 850 - State v. Hall

2. “explicitly prohibits any information obtained from a dealer, pursuant to compliance with 421A, from being released or used against the dealer in any criminal proceeding except in connection with a proceeding involving taxes due under chapter 421A.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 207 Wis. 2d 54 - State v. Hall

3. “[w]hen a statute is amended, the amendment is persuasive evidence of the legislature's intent when it passed the former, unamended statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Luckau v. Board of Review of the Industrial Commission