State v. Burney’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Persons convicted of grand larceny shall be punished in the following cases as follows: First, for stealing any automobile or motor vehicle, by confinement at hard labor for not less than five years and not more than fifteen years; second, for stealing a horse, mare, gelding, colt, filly, neat cattle, mule or ass, by confinement at hard labor not exceeding seven years; third, in all cases of grand larceny, except as provided in the two succeeding sections, by confinement at hard labor not exceeding five years.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Towner

2. ““Repeals by implication are not favored in the law, and a former act will be held to have been repealed by implication by a later act only when the latei enactment is so repugnant to the provisions of the first act that botih cannot be given force and effect.” (Syl. ¶ 1.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. City of Overland Park v. Nikias

3. ““Every person who shall be convicted of feloniously stealing, taking or carrying away any money, goods, rights in action or other personal property or valuable thing whatsoever of the value of fifty dollars ($50) or more, shall be deemed guilty of grand larceny.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Towner