State v. Jamieson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘Every physician or other person who shall willfully administer to any pregnant woman any medicine, drug, or substance whatsoever, or shall use or employ any instrument or means whatsoever, with intent thereby to procure abortion or the miscarriage of any such woman, unless the same shall have been necessary to preserve the life of such woman . . . shall upon conviction be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by imprisonment.’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Darling · 20 Kan. App. 2d 767 - State v. Bennett

2. ““In an information charging the violation of section 1 of the hone-dry law’ (Laws 1917, ch. 215), making it unlawful ‘for any person to keep or have in his possession . . . any intoxicating liquors . . . or to give away or furnish intoxicating liquors to another, except druggists or registered pharmacists as hereinafter provided,’ it is not necessary to allege that the defendant was not a druggist or registered pharmacist. “A negative averment of the matter of an exception or proviso in a penal statute is not necessary in an information, unless such matter enters into and becomes a material part of the description of the offense.” (Syl. fin, 2.)”

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