Mendenhall v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Every officer, agent, attorney, clerk, servant or employe of any person, etc., . . . who, having access to, control or possession of any MONEY, ARTICLE OR THING OF VALUE, to the possession of which his employer is entitled, shall, while in such employment, take, purloin, secrete or in any way whatsoever appropriate to his own use, or to the use of others, or who shall knowingly permit any other person to take, purloin, secrete or in any way appropriate to his own use, or the use of others, any money, coin, bills, notes, credits, choses in action or other property or article of value, etc.””

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