State v. Logan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he intentional and forcible seizing and carrying of any person from one place to another without his consent.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Porter · 948 So. 2d 335 - State v. Gray

2. “We think, as did the trial judge, that the fact that the defendant did not lay hands on her until she endeavored to get out of the truck does not mean that force was not used in keeping her in the truck for by keeping her in the truck against her will while that vehicle was traveling at a rapid rate of speed constituted a forcible seizure just the same as if the accused had held her therein at the point of a gun without laying hands on her, and certainly no one would doubt that holding a person at the point of a gun does not constitute forcible seizure and detention. Consequently, when the defendant transported the prosecutrix under these conditions from the place where she wanted to get out of the truck, passed the road leading into Cotton Valley, to the point where she jumped or fell from the moving truck, all against her will, the added element of transportation makes this crime one of Simple Kidnapping. . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 948 So. 2d 335 - State v. Gray