Elletson v. Dixie Home Stores’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 12 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “By probable cause is meant the extent of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief in a reasonable mind acting on the facts within the knowledge of the prosecution that the person charged was guilty of a crime for which he has been charged, and only those facts and circumstances which were or should have been known to the prosecutor at the time he instituted the prosecution should be considered.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 745 F. Supp. 2d 664 - Zimbelman v. Savage

2. “[I]t is to be remembered that, while individuals are to be protected against rash and baseless prosecutions, the public interests demand that courts shall not frown upon honest efforts made in attempts to bring the guilty to justice ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Huffman v. Sunshine Recycling, LLC

3. ““The Court may of its own motion call a witness and examine same even out of order. It is a matter within the discretion of the trial Judge, * * *””

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