State v. Crawley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 16 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) Whoever informs, or causes information to be communicated to, a peace officer, whose responsibilities include investigating or reporting police misconduct, that a peace officer, as defined in section 626.84, subdivision 1, paragraph (c), has committed an act of police misconduct, knowing that the information is false, is guilty of a crime and may be sentenced as follows....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Minnesota v. Timothy Robert Turner

2. “that the defamatory statement is communicated to someone other than the plaintiff; that the statement is false; that the statement tends to harm the plaintiffs reputation and to lower the plaintiff in the estimation of the community, and that the recipient of the false statement reasonably understands it to refer to a specific individual.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State of Minnesota v. Timothy Robert Turner

3. “Whoever [disturbs an assembly or meeting] in a public or private place ... knowing or having reasonable grounds to know that it will, or will tend to, alarm, anger or disturb others or provoke an assault or breach of the peace is guilty of disorderly conduct ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Matter of Welfare of A. J. B.