People v. McCoy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he defendant has violated one or more conditions in his release, or the defendant is suffering from a mental disease or defect which is likely to cause him to be dangerous to himself, to others, or to the community in the reasonably foreseeable future, if he is permitted to remain on conditional release, (emphasis added)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Garlotte

2. “the term ‘or’ as used in a statute is presumed to be used in the disjunctive sense unless legislative intent is clearly contrary”); Gamble, 759 P.2d at 764 (stating that the term”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. May Department Stores Co. v. State Ex Rel. Woodard