Howlett v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “an appellate court's resolution of a question of law in a previous appeal of the same case will govern the disposition of the same issue when raised in a subsequent appeal.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carroll, Timothy Earl v. State · Carroll v. State

2. “(a) A person commits an offense if, without the effective consent of the owner: (1) he intentionally or knowingly damages or destroys the tangible property of the owner; (2) he intentionally or knowingly tampers with the tangible property of the owner and causes pecuniary loss or substantial inconvenience to the owner or a third person;.... [[Image here]] (c) For the purposes of this section, it shall be presumed that a. person who is receiving the economic benefit of public communications, public water, gas, or power supply, has knowingly tampered with the tangible property of the owner if the communication or supply has been: (1) diverted from passing through a metering device; or (2) prevented from being correctly registered by a metering device; or (3) activated by any device installed to obtain public communications, public water, gas, or power supply without a metering device.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Santana v. State · Doyle v. State