Fields v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““So the question is, is one in control of a vehicle or horse, upon or in which another is riding with him, guilty of transporting liquor if he knows his companion .has in his direct personal custody, and on his person, a small quantity of liquor? To so hold would not only be a perversion of the spirit of our statute by making one guilty of transporting liquor who had never'in fact been-the actual owner or custodian of it either in person or by his agent,, but would weaken the enforcement of the statute* against transportation because of the -requirement, of section 241 (Or. Code Pra.c.) that his evidence* should be corroborated. “Our conclusion therefore on this branch of the case is that Shackelford was not guilty of transporting liquor, and was not, therefore, an accomplice; of appellant.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Woolum v. Commonwealth