State v. King’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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Any person making an arrest without a warrant shall take the arrested person without unnecessary delay before a judge of the District Court for the division in which the arrest was made or in which the crime was committed. * * * Whenever an arrest shall be made, the arrested person shall be afforded a prompt hearing for the purpose of admission to bail before a judge of the District Court or an officer authorized to bail persons * * *."”

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

2. “the elapsed time between the defendant's arrest and his confession is the critical period [that] we must examine and scrutinize in order to determine if it had been operative in inducing the defendant's admissions.”

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

3. “consider whether the so-called delay in bringing the defendant before a judicial officer in any way prompted [the defendant] to give the police his inculpatory statement”

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