State v. Doolittle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The money was applied to the use of appellant, when he used it in the way he wanted to use it. Whether he chose to use it on his personal obligations, or give it to the bank of which he was president, or spend it on riotous living, he directed its disposition, and thereby applied it to his own use.” 114 Kan. at 666 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Magee · 53 Kan. App. 2d 131 - Alain Ellis Living Trust v. Harvey D. Ellis Living Trust

2. “. . Demand is necessary only where the prosecution is under the second part of the above statute. Since its original enactment, the statute under which appellant was prosecuted has been amended on at least two occasions, and in State v. Rush, supra, may be found a history of the changes and an analysis of some of our decisions construing it. What is there said need not be reviewed. It appears from the cases therein cited that under the facts of this case appellant was properly charged under the first part of the statute, and no demand was necessary. (See, also, State v. Campbell, 59 Kan. 246 , 52 Pac. 454 .)” (l.c. 613.)”

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

3. “In determining the sufficiency of and in interpreting the verdict in a criminal case, the court may make use of anything in the record that tends to show with certainty what the jury intended.”

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