Orr v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “But merely showing that the accused knowingly stated what was false is not sufficient; there must also be proof that his intent was to defraud. [I]n order to determine whether the intent to defraud existed at the time the act was committed, the conduct and representations of the accused must be examined since intent is “a secret operation of the mind.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Grites v. Commonwealth