State v. Cohran’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2017
6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Freeman · Cohran v. State · Dunson v. State
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[For a prosecution of] false pretenses, it is necessary to charge that the pretenses were false; that the defendant knew them to be false; that he obtained from another certain money or other valuable things; and that the pretenses were the moving cause by which the money or things were obtained. Because of the absence of extrinsic facts in explanation of the pretense and wherein it consisted, the indictment was fatally defective. In addition, it also failed to charge that the defendants knew that the writings were false.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[D]id wilfully, unlawfully, knowingly, fraudulently, designedly, and feloniously, with intent to cheat and defraud one Ross Brown and Barry Brown, a partnership, by color of certain false writings, in words and figures as follows, to wit: [[Image here]] obtain of and from the said Ross Brown and Barry Brown by means and color of the said false writings the sum of $25.56 good and lawful money of the United States, Against the peace and dignity of the State of Mississippi.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.