Vincent v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In brief, the argument of appellant is that in order to make the requisite showing of a conviction of the first offense, the record thereof must be as fully introduced by a complete transcript thereof as if an appeal were being taken from the said first conviction. In this appellant is mistaken, for the issue as to the first conviction is not whether appellant was therein properly convicted but whether as an affirmative matter he was finally convicted; and the record as introduced was sufficient to show that, and as already stated it was properly authenticated, as allowed under Section 1725, Code 1942. ( 200 Miss. at 427, 428 , 27 So.2d at 557 )”

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