State v. Stuart’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. “"The indictment is not a model pleading, but it advises the defendant that he is charged with two related offenses arising out of the same unlawful transaction : (1) felonious conversion of an automobile by a bailee thereof; and (2) wrongful possession of an automobile known by the possessor to have been obtained by criminal means within the commonly understood meaning of the word 'stolen.' Accordingly , the indictment was good against the demurrer, and the demurrer should have been overruled."”

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

2. “"The indictment, in the instant case, charges in the language of the statute, that the sodomy occurred as a part of the same act and transaction as the rape. We have repeatedly held that an indictment in the language of a statute is good against a demurrer. Since it does not appear on the face of the indictment that the two crimes charged could not be a part of the same transaction, the demurrer must be overruled."”

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

3. “recognize[s] the obvious truth that if multiple crimes charged in one indictment could not have been part of the same act or transaction the indictment is defective.”

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