People v. Ayers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is also urged as a ground of reversal that no venue was proven. The rule is elementary that in criminal trials the venue must be proved by competent evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, and where the record fails to locate the place of the crime within the jurisdiction of the court, whether through inadvertence or otherwise, the judgment must be reversed. While in this State, under section 11919, 3 Comp. Laws (3 Comp. Laws 1915, § 15746), an information is not to be held defective for want of proper venue, and time and place need not be proven exactly as alleged, a venue must nevertheless be proven in all cases to show that the court has jurisdiction of the offense charged. Tiffany’s Criminal Law, p. 535; 22 Enc. of PL & Prac. p. 827; 2 Bishop’s New Grim. Procedure (2d Ed.), p. 1171; 13 Enc. of Ev. p. 929; Kolman v. State, 124 Ga. 63 ( 52 S. E. 82 ); State v. Hartnett, 75 Mo. 251 ; Boykin v. State, 148 Ala. 608 ( 42 South. 999 ). The venue is laid in this information as at the township of Penn, county of Cass, and State of Michigan. We have searched in vain all testimony given upon the trial of this cause, as disclosed by the printed record, for any mention of the township, county, or State, as alleged in the information. The only identification of the time and place, when, and where the alleged offense was committed, is found in the prosecutrix’s testimony, wherein she states that the intercourse which she had with respondent causing pregnancy, resulting in birth of the c”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Warner

2. ““It is also urged as a ground of reversal that no venue was proven. The rule is elementary that in criminal trials the venue must be proved by competent evidence beyond a reasonable doubt, and where the record fails to locate the place of the crime within the jurisdiction of the court, whether through inadvertence or otherwise, the judgment must be reversed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Randolph