Mobley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

72 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'These were not isolated occurrences, but happened repeatedly and came to be a part of a more or less established course of conduct, to which Mrs. Mobley by her presence, and failure to stop it, became a party. * * *”

   9 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Zobel · Schmidt v. State

2. ““The presence of one at the scene of a commission of a crime and companionship with another engaged therein, and a course of .conduct before and after the offense, are circumstances which may be considered in determining whether such person aided and abetted the commission of such crime.””

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

3. “"This undenied condition of the body, together with the fact that the child had been in the exclusive custody of the appellants for several weeks and had gone to the hospital directly from them, was almost conclusive evidence to sustain the verdict against one or both defendants."”

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