Ossen v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘Entrapment is the conception and planning of an offense by an officer, and his procurement of its commission by one who would not have perpetrated it except for the trickery, persuasion, or fraud of the officer.’ ” Falden v. Commonwealth, 167 Va. 549, 555 , 189 S. E. 329 , quoting from Sorrells v. United States, 287 U. S. 435 , 53 S. Ct. 210 , 77 L. ed. 413, 86 A. L. R. 249. In Ossen v. Commonwealth, 187 Va. 902, 911 , 48 S. E. 2d 204 , we quoted the above definition with approval, and said: “It is a general rule that where the criminal intent originates in the mind of the entrapping person and the accused is lured into the commission of a crime which he had otherwise no intention of committing in order to prosecute him therefor, no conviction may be had, though the committing of the act is not affected by any question of consent.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Swift v. Commonwealth

2. ““(e)ntrapment is the conception and planning of an offense by an officer, and his procurement of its commission by one who would not have perpetrated it except for the trickery, persuasion, or fraud of the officer.” 287 U.S. at p. 454 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Johnson v. Commonwealth