Richards v. State’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. ““A study of the title and text of the Act can lead one to no other conclusion than that its purpose was to impose a uniform standard of moral conduct on all public officials. Certainly nothing could be more desirable in public officers. Inequality of moral standards is one of the greatest obstacles-to law enforcement in this country. It makes personal compacts difficult and international compacts almost impossible of enforcement. If permitted' to traffic in the trust imposed in him in the manner shown here, then all restraint is off and public office is no-more a position of trust and confidence, but a sanctuary for the freebooter.””

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

2. “Section 7486 [F.S.A. § 838.06], while infected with the element of bribery, is much broader in scope than the bribery statutes. It reaches only the acceptor of the bribe, but it also includes the crime of extortion and affects the officer, his deputy, or appointee if he exacts or accepts a bribe for the performance, non-performance, or violation of any act, rule, or regulation that he may be called on to perform. It was framed in other words to reach and punish any misconduct on the part of a public officer or his deputy * * *. * * * * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 97 So. 2d 31 - Younghans v. State

3. “assume that he was immune from prosecution”

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