Hawkins v. Kurlander’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “For a court to hold that a promise of confidentiality can be breached merely because the investigation did not lead to criminal charges would raise a red flag for future witnesses who might well decline to reveal confidences to the District Attorney because of the risk of public disclosure”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Friedman v. Rice

2. “records ... compiled for law enforcement purposes and which, if disclosed, would ... identify a confidential source or disclose confidential information relating to a criminal investigation”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Friedman v. Rice