Haycraft v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We are convinced that the definition given to the word ‘keep’ in these gaming laws by our sister courts and by this court in the Burns Case, supra, is correct and in accord with what the Legislature evidently intended by the language it employed in this statute, and, inasmuch as in the instant case there is nothing shown against the defendants beyond mere possession of these slot machines, and no proof that they intended to set up, manage, operate, or conduct them as gaming devices anywhere, the court should have peremptorily instructed the jury to find them not guilty. ’ ’”

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