State v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The word ‘sale’ ex vi termini, includes a person to whom the sale is made, as much so as the phrase ‘keep for another’ includes such other. As noted in the Ladd Case, however, the offense of larceny violates an individual right of another, namely, the owner or holder of the property, and hence the name of such other must be stated in order to completely state the offense. But the sale of liquor to another and the keeping of it for another are complete in themselves without regard to the particular person to whom the sale is made or for whom it is kept, as their rights are not violated nor involved, and thus a charge of either act is complete without naming the other person implied or included in the terms.””

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