Kansas v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 10 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In a prosecution for burglary in the first degree under G. S. 1935, 21-513, the requirement of a human being in the dwelling house at the time is satisfied where the evidence discloses human beings were at the time occupying a large, furnished, railed and roofed but otherwise open porch, joined to and made a part of the dwelling house, which was customarily used during the summer months as a part of the dwelling house.” (Syl. ¡I 2.)”

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

2. ““ ‘Every person who shall be convicted of breaking into and entering, in the nighttime, the dwelling house of another, in which there shall be at the time some human being, with intent to commit some felony, or any larceny therein.’ ” 162 Kan. 571 .”

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

3. ““No building shall be deemed a dwelling house or any part of a dwelling house, within the meaning of the foregoing provisions, unless the same be joined to or immediately connected with, and a part of, a dwelling house.””

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