State v. Creel’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The trial judge advises us that the officer's found, in defendant’s smokehouse, 8 or 8 half gallon new fruit jars, one of which was about half full of white corn whisky, and that they testified that the others had the smell of whisky. The judge further advises us that defendant testified that he obtained a gallon of white corn whisky from a negro, who had since been killed, to be used by his father as medicine for rheumatism, and, we gather from the record, that defendant’s position was that he had obtained the whisky for that purpose on the advice of a physician. The evidence as to the barrel and charcoal, when considered in connection with the finding of the new fruit jars, one of which contained whisky, and the others the odor of whisky, had a tendency to disprove the statement of the defendant, in relation to the acquisition of the whisky, and it was for that reason that the trial court admitted it. The ruling was correct.””

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