Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘Any person who shall obtain, with fraudulent intent, money, or other property which may be the subject of larceny, or who shall obtain credit with like intent, by means of a check, draft, or order, of which he is the maker or drawer, which is not paid by the drawee, shall be guilty * * * ’.””

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

2. ““We think the passing of the two worthless checks was to all intents and purposes a single transaction. [[Image here]] If the [first] check ... was a fraud on the payee, as it clearly was, the [second] one ... as a substitute for it was no less a fraud....””

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