State v. William’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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. ““There was some evidence against William which might have justified a verdict and judgment on the second count, but the jury acquitted him on the latter charge. . . . “This court i§ constrained to hold that the foregoing evidence (all questions of its competency aside) does not prove the charge that the defendant took this girl away from her parents' for the purpose of prostitution. . . “Since the jury acquitted the defendant upon the only charge which the evidence tended to establish, and the evidence entirely fails to prove the charge upon which defendant was convicted, the judgment cannot stand.” (pp. 779, 781.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Clark