People v. Bendit’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 federal appellate · 2 district · 42 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * When the crime is charged to be the false making of a writing, there must be -the making of a writing which falsely purports to be the writing of another. The falsity must be in the writing itself —in the. manuscript. A false statement of fact in the body -of the instrument, or a false assertion of authority .to write another’s name, or to sign his name as agent, by which a person is deceived and defrauded, is not forgery. There must be a design to pass as the genuine writing of another person that which -is not the writing of such other person.”,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Hunt · Greathouse v. United States

2. “A very large part of the business of civilized countries is done by means of negotiable instruments. These are rarely presented by the makers, but are paid to others on the faith that the signatures, and the bodies of the instruments, are genuine. The business of a bank would come to a standstill if the paying teller would not pay any check until he could communicate with the drawer. Hence, if there were many successful forgeries there would be the utmost confusion in business circles.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 6 Cal. 5th 433 - People v. Franco