Basham v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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

1. ““Section (5) of the act provides that any male person of the age of 17 years and under 21. years shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $500, and not as provided in the other section of the act. If there had been any evidence conducing to show that the defendant was under 21 years of age, he might complain that an instruction under section (5) was not given. But he testified himself that he was 27 years of age, and there was no evidence that he was under 21. He cannot, therefore, complain of the language of the instruction, for plainly he was in no. wise prejudiced by what was merely a typographical error in writing 18 in place of 21 in the instruction relating to his age, and the judgment cannot be reversed for this, under Cr. Code, sec. 340.””

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