Rosin v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"`The principal rule, as to the certainty required in an indictment may, I think, be correctly laid down thus: that where the definition of an offence whether by a rule of the common law or by statute, includes generic terms (as it necessarily must) it is not sufficient that the indictment should charge the offence in the same generic terms as in the definition, but it must state the species — it must descend to particulars.'"”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dilworth v. State · 344 So. 2d 863 - State v. Barnett

2. “"* * * on the 28th day of July, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three, in the County and State aforesaid, did then and there unlawfully and feloniously take, steal and carry away money, goods and chattels of one Edward Earle Baker, to-wit: lawful money of the United States of America in the amount of Two Hundred ($200.00) Dollars, a further and more particular description of said money, goods and chattels being to the State Attorney unknown; that at the time Louis A. Bruno committed the offense as aforesaid he was a municipal officer, that is to say, the said Louis A. Bruno was a member of the City Council of the City of North Miami Beach, Dade County, Florida, and said offense was connected with the discharge of the duty of his office, and that the said Louis A. Bruno has continuously thereafter held the aforesaid office to the date of the filing of this indictment. * * *" (Emphasis ours.)”

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