Ex parte Moody’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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

1. ““This evidence was introduced, we presume, for the purpose of proving that a detention warrant had, in fact, been issued and delivered to the county convict manager. Assuming, but not deciding, that such proof, if made, would meet the demands of the statute, this evidence, is insufficient for that purpose. It will be observed that the sheriff’s testimony simply tended to prove that a detention warrant was made out by his predecessor, but wholly failed to even indicate that it was in fact delivered to the county convict manager. Under the statute hereinbefore cited, such a warrant is the sole authority under which a county convict manager can detain a convict in custody, and in the absence of such a warrant here, relator was entitled to his discharge.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex parte Moody

2. “‘£ On delivery of every convict the sheriff or marshal, or head police officer of the municipality shall give to the person entitled to his custody a warrant of detention as authority for the detention of the convict, unless he pay out before that time until a certain day, and such warrant shall set out that on the day named he shall discharge him and deliver to him the warrant with indorsement thereon that the convict has been duly discharged and such warrant shall be the sole authority of any person to detain a convict in custody. ’ ’ ■”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex parte Moody