State v. Pratt’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 1937 · most notably McDonald v. United States (1937), State v. Capaci (1934)
6 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Taylor · Scott v. State · State v. Sansone · Clinton v. Estes · State v. Miller
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The deed in this case, forged in the name of Bishop by Cottrell and his associates, was executed on the 9th day of June, 1896. It is claimed, upon this ground, that any subsequent transactions regarding the land trade, letters to and from Lesueur, etc., were inadmissible against defendant, because he was not shown to have been a participant in such subsequent transactions. No rule of law is better settled than that a conspiracy being shown, and that conspiracy ended, no word of any one of the conspirators' can be received as incriminating evidence against any one or more of the others. This rule, however, only applies where the words are merely narrative of a past transaction. It does not apply where the transaction — the criminal design — is still pending and unaccomplished. Sometimes it is a nice and difficult question to determine when any criminal design has terminated. In this case, however, no difficulty arises, because the aim and object of the conspirators, evidently, was to so use the land as to which they had acquired a fictitious title as to divide the proceeds of their ill-gotten gains among themselves, and until this was done the design was still inchoate and pending; and, as shown by the evidence, the conspirators were willing to forge another deed, if necessary, to make their unlawful gains secure. As illustrating this point, it has been ruled that if two conspired to steal a watch, and then to divide its proceeds between them, what one said and did between th”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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