State v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 14 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We think the judge a quo would have been justified in charging that, if the jury found that the defendant, being already married to one woman, had married another, he was chargeable with the intent necessary to constitute the crime of bigamy, and if he claimed to have contracted the second marriage in the honest belief that the first had been dissolved by a decree of divorce, the onus was upon him to establish to their satisfaction (his mental capacity and surroundings considered), that he had reasonable grounds for such belief, and did, in fact, so believe; but that it would not be enough 'for him merely to create a doubt in their minds upon that subject.””

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

2. ““That any person who shall be convicted of the crime of bigamy in this state shall be imprisoned at hard labor in the state penitentiary for a period of not more than five years nor less than one year.””

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