State v. George’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “to indulge an inference upon an inference that could lead but to conjecture not justifying a conclusion that [possession had been proven] beyond a reasonable doubt and to the exclusion of any [other] reasonable hypothesis.”

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

2. “that the [trial] court itself suggested the matter of reasonable doubt and supplied an hypothesis itself that reasonably is inconsistent with larceny.”

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

3. “[w]e believe that there are other hypotheses inconsistent with a larceny that could be constructed out of the tenuous facts extant here,”

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