Benedict v. People’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 18 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The point is made that the defendant was not furnished, previous to, or at the time of, his arraignment, with a copy of the information and a list of the jurors and of the people’s witnesses, as the statute prescribes. As originally made up, the record does not affirmatively show that this requirement was observed.' When, however, this imperfection in the record was called to its attention, the trial court, at the same.term, and upon a showing made, ordered the record to be amended to speak the truth in this respect. The record, as now before us, shows that the statute was fully complied-with in the particular mentioned. The right of the court thus to amend its own records is unquestioned, and, for aught that appears, there was abundant evidence before the court to justify the order directing the amendment to be made/’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mulligan v. People

2. ““In a criminal case the trial must be public, not secret; but the public trial does not necessarily contemplate that every person whose morbid curiosity for indecent details draws him thither shall have that curiosity gratified by being permitted to be present in the courtroom to listen- to the recital of' disgusting facts.” ' '”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reagan v. United States