Gilmour v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““By this statute the State has created a sharper and more effective spear for a dull or dormant sense of parental duty than that which was before the instrument of a court of equity in a divorce proceeding; It was the duty of appel-lee to support his infant children and the fact that he has been deprived of their custody at the instance of the wife can not serve to relieve him of that duty. “Personal presence is not an indispensable element in the locality of crime. A neglect to do an act is punishable in the county where the act should have been done.””

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

2. ““This court has further said that where the crime charged is an omission to do an act, the venue of the offense is in the county where the act should have been performed. The act in the case at bar to be performed was the support of the children. The place to perform the act, the omission of which act resulted in the crime charged, was in Rush County where the children resided.””

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