State v. Archuleta’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[I]f police have a valid right to arrest an individual for one crime, it does not matter if their subjective intent is in reality to collect information concerning another crime.... In other words, if the alleged pretext arrest could have taken place absent police suspicion of the defendant's involvement in another crime, then the arrest is lawful.... The arrest was not rendered invalid solely because the officers had a separate motive for arresting him....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Harmon

2. “If at any time during the course of the proceedings it is brought to the attention of the court that a party has failed to comply with this rule, the court may order such party to permit the discovery or inspection, grant a continuance, or prohibit the party from introducing evidence not disclosed, or it may enter such other order as it deems just under the circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Menzies

3. “Each defendant is an individual, and each case is unique in its facts. Any attempt to draw broad comparisons between defendants or crimes calls for speculation as to why a particular defendant or crime was dealt with by that jury in that particular fashion. The many factors which may in fluence a jury’s decision cannot easily be identified, let alone quantified.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Carter