233 So. 2d 829 - Barlow v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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16 state decisions

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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 virtue of his office means that the officer has a legal right to do that which he is doing. If he did not have a right lawfully to receive the property and yet received it as a justice of the peace he was acting under color of office. The embezzlement statute does not provide that a man is guilty when he acts under colore officii. Furthermore, the indictment charged that the money was the property of the county. If it were a bond it could not possibly become the property of the county until the bond was forfeited.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lambert v. State · Gerrard v. State

2. “This Court has repeatedly held that Mississippi Code 1942 Annotated section 1693 (1956) permits a cross examination of a defendant or witness as to any convictions but never as to indictments and certainly not as to censures by the grand jury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 956 So. 2d 1016 - Bailey v. State

3. “Q: So wouldn't you agree with me that a justice of the peace making that kind of money at the expense of the taxpayer ought to be honest? ... . Q: You made enough money there that you could have been honest?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 704 So. 2d 452 - Snelson v. State