State v. Grossman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It finds the defendant guilty of ‘selling or otherwise «disposing of liquor on Sunday.’ The verdict in that form is not a finding that he sold whiskey on Sunday, or that he gave it away or otherwise disposed of it on Sunday; it is simply a verdict which says, ‘We find the defendant guilty of either selling on Sunday or otherwise disposing of liquor’ on that day, and leaves it to a mere conjecture as to which act the defendant is found guilty of committing.””

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