State v. Naranjo’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... before a charge of perjury can be sustained, the following essentials are required: (1) the allegations must be direct and specific, not in terms of uncertain meaning or by way of implication; (2) the indictment must particularize where the testimony was false, a general allegation of falsity being insufficient; and (3) if the offense encompasses many allegedly perjurious statements “of which some might be true, and used only as the vehicle of falsity,” the defendant must be told in the indictment “wherein, and to what extent, the statements alleged to have been made by him were false.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Benavidez

2. “Perjury consists of making a false statement under oath or affirmation, material to the issue or matter involved in the course of any judicial, administrative, legislative or other official proceeding, knowing such statement to be untrue.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Gallegos