State v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “Defendant’s argument is unavailing. This Court has reiterated in the past that the findings of [the] grand jury, when made by and through an indictment, duly returned into court, and regular upon its face, are, with respect to the kind and degree of evidence upon which it was returned, conclusive, and that the courts are without power or jurisdiction to inquire into the subject and review the testimony submitted to the grand jury to determine whether or not the required kind or degree of evidence was submitted.”

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

2. “is a judicial tribunal with inquisitorial powers, and, unless there is some clear statutory authority to do so, we think the courts are without power to review its action to determine whether or not it had sufficient or insufficient, legal or illegal, competent or incompetent evidence upon which to return an indictment.”

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

3. “[a]ll evidence [before the grand jury] must be such as would be legally admissible upon trial.”

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