People v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 15 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““* * * There is no class of cases in which it is more important that the circuit judge should have a large discretion as to the order in which evidence should be received; and this discretion cannot be reviewed on error except in clear cases of abuse, * *”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Yoshino · People v. Knoll

2. ““It is next objected that the court erred in admitting evidence that, at the same time and place that complaint was made against "Amberg & Helmer, complaint was made by the same party against another firm for a violation of the same law. These two complaints were so closely connected that in proving one it was almost impracticable to avoid the mention of the other. But even if it had been practicable, we do not think it was essential. If there was a conspiracy in the one case, there probably was in the other, and the evidence of the one would throw light upon the motives inducing the other. Mr. Roscoe justly says that, ‘The evidence in conspiracy is wider than, perhaps, in any other case. * * * Taken by themselves, the acts of a conspiracy are rarely of an unequivocally guilty character and they can only be properly estimated when connected with all the surrounding circumstances.’ Ros. Cr. Ev. 88 [14th Ed. p. 521]; and see Hunt’s Case, 3 B. & Ald. 573. There are cases in which, a party being charged with fraud in a particular transaction, it was held competent to give evidence of similar fraudulent transactions with other persons. Bottomley v. United States, 1 Story (U. S.), 135; Rankin v. Blackwell, 2 Johns. Cas. (N. Y.) 198; and these seem very much in point here. But we do not decide that the evidence of the other complaint would have been admissible, if it had been a distinct transaction at another time; it is enough that the two were so inseparably associated in time, an”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. McElheny

3. ““It is wholly immaterial whether, in the absence of any conspiracy, the purchase would have been innocent in the purchasers or not, or whether, considered by itself, there was any illegality in the attempt at a compromise. It is the unlawful conspiracy that constitutes the crime, and not acts done in pursuance of it. ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Warsop v. Cole