Plummer v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “an undue tendency to suggest decision on an improper basis, commonly, though not necessarily, an emotional one.” Plummer v. United States, 813 A.2d 182, 189 (D.C.2002) (quoting Mercer v. United States, 724 A.2d 1176, 1184 (D.C.1999)) (internal quotation marks omitted). . Allen, 603 A.2d at 1233 (Rogers, C.J., concurring); supra note 40. . Id. at 1231 (Rogers, C.J., concurring). . See id. (Rogers, C.J., concurring) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. United States