State v. Rousseau’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The substance of the whole contention here made in appellant’s behalf is that the information is fatally defective because it does not in specific terms charge him with opening a place for the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor ‘as principal or agent.’ It, of course, seems plain that, in order to sustain a conviction of appellant, it must appear that he opened the place as principal, that is, as owner or proprietor of the place; or as agent of the owner or proprietor of the place; but is not this just what the language of the information necessarily means? How could one ‘open up, conduct or maintain . . . any place for the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor’ except for himself as principal, or as agent for another as principal? We think the lan guage of the information as plainly means that appellant opened the place ‘as principal or agent’ as if these words were in the information.””

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