State v. Meysenburg’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A statute having made it punishable for one not a qualified voter to vote at an election, a charge of the offense simply in these words was adjudged inadequate; for whether or not the defendant is such voter is a deduction of the law from the facts, and, though a statute may define an offense by its legal result, not so an indictment. It must state the facts whence the result comes, thus notifying the defendant of what lie must meet, and putting upon the record a proper case for the court’s adjudication.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Robinson

2. ““The facts in allegation must be the primary and individualizing ones. Tims a charge that the defendant committed larceny' discloses only a secondary fact, produced by a combination of primary facts and law; in other words, it is a conclusion of the law. This does not suffice. The pleader should set out the primary facts, disconnected from the law; then the court, knowing the law and applying it to them, will deduce tile legal result.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Robinson