Madison v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “in legal contemplation, by defendant before the sale? He called them up; this was exercising control over them certainly, and after they came up, and whilst they were thus in his control, if he, knowing them not to be his property, sold and constructively delivered them to Grooms, who afterwards took them into actual possession under the purchase, it would in our opinion, bring the case fully within the rule quoted above from Russell, viz: that”

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

2. “if the thief fraudulently procure a person innocent of any felonious intent to take the goods for him, his offense will be the same as if he had taken the goods himself.”

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