Harris v. Langlois’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 21 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * Clearly the end and aim of an appearance before the court must be to enable an accused probationer to explain away the accusation. The charge against him may have been inspired by rumor or mistake or even downright malice. He shall have a chance to say his say before the word of his pursuers is received to his undoing. This does not mean that he may insist upon a trial in any strict or formal sense. * * * It does mean that there shall be an inquiry so fitted in its range to the needs of the occasion as to justify the conclusion that discretion has not been abused by the failure of the inquisitor to carry the probe deeper.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. DeRoche · Walker v. Langlois

2. ““We think the language of our [probation revocation] statute providing for ‘the presence of the defendant’ in open court requires no more and no less.””

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