Haynes v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““Whoever makes, publishes or sends to another any communication, written or oral, containing a threat to injure the person or property of any person shall be punished * *”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Vigue v. State · State v. Hotham

2. ““A crime is charged. The words of the Statute are used in charging the crime, but the plaintiff in error says the words in the Statute do not describe the crime with certainty. At the most, the charge is not made with the certainty to which the plaintiff in error is entitled. He could have taken advantage of this by demurring, or he could have waived it by going to trial. He chose the latter course, so we are not called upon to decide this as if we were doing so upon a demurrer.” Briggs v. State of Maine, 152 Me. 180 , at page 182, 126 A.2d 563 , at page 564. “A plea of guilty admits all averments of fact and waives any defect in the indictment in the form of the allegations which are not jurisdictional. 27 Am.Jur. — Indictments and Informations, Sec. 187.”

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