State v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Missouri v. Hunter · Baskett v. United States · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Independent Federation of Flight Attendants · Bauer v. Waldschmidt · California Department of Transportation v. Naegele Outdoor Advertising Co. of California
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the special prosecutors did not engage in prosecutorial misconduct; (2) the special prosecutors did not represent the family of the victim in a civil case arising out of the occurrence which gave rise to criminal prosecution (emphasis added); (3) this was not a contempt proceeding which arose out of a civil prosecution; and (4) the district attorney general maintained control over the prosecution as required by our statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Eldridge
How this case has been treated — in progress
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