People v. Ehinger’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “The degree of likelihood or unlikelihood of discovery of the victim’s hiding place simply presented a factual question for the jury to resolve in light of all the circumstances of the abduction and restraint, and is not susceptible to disposition as a matter of law on this record. As noted long ago by Edgar Allan Poe’s great detective, C. Auguste Dupin, in the case of “The Purloined Letter,” sometimes the most effective way to conceal something may be to leave it in plain view. Surely this jury was free to find that the isolation of a Japanese music student, with few local friends or acquaintances, could be most effectively accomplished by imprisonment in his own home in the very manner carried out by defendants. Indeed, defendants were successful in fobbing off the police on their first visit to the door of the apartment when the officers were summoned to the premises by an alarmed neighbor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 942 F. Supp. 925 - Ehinger v. Miller

2. “A person is guilty of kidnapping in the first degree when he abducts another person and when: 2. he restrains the person abducted for a period of more than twelve hours with intent to: (b) accomplish or advance the commission of a felony ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 942 F. Supp. 925 - Ehinger v. Miller