State v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The right to a change of venue being a privilege accorded to the defendant alone and not to the State, no valid reason appears to us why he may not stipulate for such a change or waive it if he sees fit. It involves in no sense a waiver of any constitutional right. But in this case the defendant was not waiving any right. He was simply obtaining a privilege by a more speedy route than that accorded him by the statute. The waiver was by the prosecuting attorney of the petition and supporting affidavits. .A defendant in a criminal case in a matter in which his constitutional rights are not invaded, can no more be allowed to deal unfairly with the court and the State than a party in a civil, case. Having made his election and the court having awarded him a change of venue at his own request, he cannot now complain of the privilege granted him. [People ex rel. v. Scates, 3 Scam. (Ill.) 351; State v. Potter, 16 Kan. 80 ; Paris v. State, 36 Ala., 232 .] By the action of the Hickory County- Circuit Court the venue was retransferred to the county in which the offense was committed and the indictment was found and the trial was had there without any objection by defendant. . . N [See, also, State v. Jennings, 134 Mo. 277 , 35 S. W. 614 .]”

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