Boyce v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. ““On the nineteenth day of August, 1967, in the Town of Windham, County of Cumberland, and State of Maine, the defendant Larry A. Chapman was undergoing lawful imprisonment in the State Reformatory for Men, at said Windham, in pursuance of the sentence of the Honorable Mark L. Barrett, Judge of the Ninth District Court, for the State of Maine, on the twenty-seventh day of June, A.D.1966, for the offense of Juvenile Delinquency, which offense was within the jurisdiction of said court, and upon the nineteenth day of August, A.D. 1967, the said Larry A. Chapman did while in a supervised work crew at the Pineland Hospital and Training Center in said County, wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously, from and out of said work crew and out of said Reformatory for Men, escape and go at large.””

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

2. ““[a]ny prisoner or inmate who escapes from any assignments described in this section, or any other assignment beyond the walls of the State Prison or off the grounds of the Reformatory for Men shall be guilty of escape under this Title [34 M.R.S.A., §§ 710 and 807] or Title 17, section 1405.””

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

3. ““The lawfulness of the detention is the very gist of the crime of criminal escape, and the commitment by lawful authority is the very essence of the lawfulness of the detention.””

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