Vincent v. State’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 possession of stolen goods by the accused recently after the larceny, if unexplained [or if the explanation is disbelieved by the jury] is a circumstance from which the jury may infer his complicity in the larceny. Its value as evidence, however, is to be determined by them alone. In determining the weight to be attached to this circumstance as evidence tending to prove guilt the jury should take into consideration all the facts and circumstances connected with such possession, and their relation to the other proofs in the case””

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

2. ““ . . . The information, however, charges burglary iii general terms. Under that charge the defendant may be convicted of burglary of the first- degree, if the evidence warrants it; or he may he convicted of burglary of the second degree, if the evidence warrants it. The information as filed will support a conviction of burglary of either the first or of the second degree.””

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