Reddick v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

45 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But if we assume, without deciding, that the statute does not cover the case at bar, it would seem that the indictment for forgery and uttering would be good at common law. See Arnold v. Cost, 3 Gill & J. 219. Forgery has been defined as ‘the false making or material alteration, with intent to defraud, of any writing which, if genuine, might apparently be of legal efficacy or the foundation of a legal liability.’ 2 Wharton, Criminal Law and Procedure (Anderson’s ed.), Sec. 621. See also Clark and Marshall, Crimes (5th ed.), Sec. 398. Even where a statute has been enacted covering forgery, the common law offense is still applicable where the statute was not intended to cover the whole field or to repeal the common law. Clark and Marshall, supra, Sec. 14; Joyce, Indictments, Sec. 14. Cf. Lutz v. State, 167 Md. 12, 15 .””

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

2. “It is true that because of the outstanding injunction and notice to the various Clerks of Court, the purported license could probably not have been recorded in Maryland, as required by law; but its possession by the licensee might in itself have sufficed to work a fraud on the public, in this State or elsewhere. Intent to defraud may relate to persons not named in the indictment, or to the public generally. It is not necessary to allege in an indictment for forgery or uttering, or to prove, that it was the intent of the defendant to defraud any particular person.”

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