Cohan v. Commonwealth’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. ““Whoever shall receive stolen goods, chattels or other thing, the stealing wiiereof is punished as a felony or misdemeanor, knowing the same to be stolen, shall be liable to the same punishment to which the person stealing the same is, by law, subjected. Such offenders may be convicted, though the principal offender has not been convicted. The possession of any stolen goods shall be prima facie evidence of the guilt, under this section, of any person or persons having such possession.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Blusinsky v. Commonwealth

2. ““To sustain a conviction of Cohan it was indispensably necessary for the commonwealth to allege in the indictment and to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the essential facts showing Wills’ guilt of the crime of either grand larceny or of a felony under Section 1201b and Cohan’s guilt under Section 1199.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Blusinsky v. Commonwealth

3. ““The failure to charge in the indictment that the property was taken against the will and without the consent of the owner renders it fatally defective as to the crime of grand larceny.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Blusinsky v. Commonwealth