State v. Claybourne’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The coat was offered and received, not as evidence of its value, but for the article itself, i.e., to prove that a coat had been stolen. The coat thereafter served as the foundation for opinion evidence as to its value. Had the State produced no such independent evidence the defendant would be here challenging the sufficiency of the evidence to prove the charge—and he would be sustained. This is the case of the proverbial "two-way street." See 52A C.J.S. Larceny § 133 b(1) (1968) and United States v. Wilson, 284 F.2d 407 (4th Cir. 1960), in which the government produced no evidence of the value of 72 rifles (claimed to be worth $7,500), and the court said at page 408: Nor, in the absence of any proof of value, could the jury be permitted to speculate on this point merely from the appearance of the articles.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 19 Wash. App. 549 - State v. Coleman