Schimpf v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “. . . all gambling devices known as slot machines that may come to their attention, or that they may find in operation.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Madere · State v. Branney

2. ““There is no merit in plaintiff’s argument, for the reason that the act specifically provides that it is the mandatory duty of the officers ‘to confiscate and immediately destroy all gambling devices known as slot machines that may come to their attention, or that they may find in operation’; so that, under the precise language of the act, if such machines come to the attention of the officers, they must be confiscated whether they are being operated or not.””

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

3. ““They were all automatic pay-off machines, according to the testimony of the sheriff, who seized them, and according to the testimony of the chief of police of the Town of Jonesboro, who was with the sheriff when the seizure was made.””

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