192 So. 2d 387 - Bradshaw v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions

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

1. “"The larceny, therefore, is charged, not as a substantive offense, but as demonstrating the burglarious intent. The jury may, indeed, acquit of the burglary and convict of the larceny, but a general verdict *Page 873 of guilty will be regarded, not as a conviction of two offenses, but of the burglary alone; and the larceny charged will be deemed indicative of, and intended to demonstrate, the animo furandi which goes to make up the higher crime."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 443 So. 2d 869 - Stinson v. State · 267 So. 2d 305 - Feranda v. State

2. ““An officer without a warrant may arrest a person when he has reasonable cause to believe that a felony has been committed, and reasonable cause to believe that such person committed it. These criteria existed here, under Mississippi, Louisiana and federal constitutional law. Miss.Code Ann. § 2470 (1956); La.Rev.Stats. § 15:60 (1950); Schmerber v. State of California, 384 U.S. 757 , 86 S.Ct. 1826 , 16 L.Ed.2d 908 (1966).” (Emphasis added.)”

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

3. “Hence that part of the sentence is deleted as surplusage.”

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