Hemmaker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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

1. ““If the legislature thinks- it expedient to declare that a person who is guilty of grand larceny in another state or country and brings within our jurisdiction the stolen goods, shall be considered as guilty of grand larceny here, it is clearly within their constitutional power to make such enactment. In the determination of the character of the offence there is no necessity for inquiring what may be larceny under the laws of the country where the [original] offence was committed. The legislature punish the offence committed in this state by bringing the stolen property in it. And in doing so they merely codify a settled principle of the common law applicable to different counties and extend it here to neighboring states and foreign countries. The case of People v. Bush, 11 Wend. 129 , is an authority in point upon a statute exactly like our own. Judgment affirmed.””

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