Sams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““10298. Arrested child shall be brought before juvenile court, or be transferred to it by other courts or officials ; Notice; Continuation of trial. — When a child under the age of seventeen years is arrested, with or without a warrant, or upon a capias or other process issued from any criminal court, such a child shall, instead of being taken before a justice of the peace or police magistrate, or instead of being held to bail or incarcerated for his appearance before any criminal court, be taken directly before such juvenile court; or if the child is taken before such justice of the peace or police magistrate or any other official or court having jurisdiction over his alleged offense, it shall be the duty of such justice of the peace or police magistrate or court of such other officials to transfer the case to the juvenile court, and the officer having the child in charge shall take the child before that court, and in any case the court shall proceed to hear and dispose of the case in the same manner as if the child had been brought before the court upon petition as herein provided. In any case the court shall require notice to be given and investigation to be made as in other cases under this title, and may adjourn the hearing from time to time for this purpose. ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Norfleet v. Swafford

2. ““If the juvenile court, in its dealing with plaintiff in, error, shall find him to be incorrigible and incapable of reformation or dangerous to the welfare of the community, he may, in its discretion, be remanded to the circuit court, and there be proceeded against and tried for the offense set out in the indictment in this cause, and, if found guilty of the offense, he may, by the circuit court, be subject to judgment therefor in the same manner as if he had been over the age of 16 years when the offense was committed. See section 9 of the act.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State Ex Rel. Norfleet v. Swafford