State v. Persons’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is sufficient to charge a statutory offense in the words of the Act if every fact necessary to constitute the offense is charged or necessarily implied by following such language. But if, from the nature of the offense, the words of the statute do not clearly and definitely appraise the respondent of the offense charged against him greater particularity must be used. The complaint or information must set forth the charge with such particularity as will reasonably indicate the offense of which the respondent is accused, and enable him to plead the judgment if subsequently prosecuted for the same offense.” State v. Persons, 114 Vt. 435, 436 , 46 A.2d 854 .”

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

2. “The words unnecessarily and proper are to be understood in their ordinary sense and mean that a person, although he could provide food, drink or shelter as required to sustain the animals in reasonably good health, failed to do so. The law, however, does not require that Mr. Tuck guarantee that the puppies have always been in good health but rather that he provided such food, drink and shelter as would be reasonable under the circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tuck v. United States

3. “If the condition of the cattle on March first was due to lack of proper food the underfeeding must then have continued for some time, and evidence of their condition on January 13th was not, as a matter of law, too remote.”

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