Weisiger v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The indictment contains a great deal of surplusage, in that it pleaded all of the facts which by way of evidence the commonwealth expected to prove to establish that the crime charged — that is, that the three defendants indicted had conspired to commit a felony — had been committed by them. When considered in its entirety, however, it is obvious that the indictment was intended to and did charge the defendants with only the one crime — that is, conspiring, confederating and banding themselves together to commit a felonious act — the crime denounced by section 1241a-1, supra.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sosby v. Commonwealth