Hill v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 11 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. ““The information does not charge two offenses. It only charges the commission of one offense, to-wit, manslaughter in the first degree, but it does allege different acts which were committed by the defendant which would constitute the offense of manslaughter in the first degree.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Payne v. State · Hammonds v. State

2. ““To ‘utter’ as used in the statute against forgery, and counterfeiting means to offer, whether accepted or not, a forged instrument, with the representation, by words or action, that the same is genuine.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ralph Carlton Fisher, Also Known as Kevin McCarley v. Stephen W. Kaiser, and Attorney General of Oklahoma · Fields v. State

3. ““We think the circumstantial evidence was entirely sufficient to sustain the conviction. The proof showed defendant in possession of the forged prescription. He presented it to the druggist to be filled. A strong circumstance indicating his knowledge of the false character of the prescription was the fact that when the druggist refused to fill the prescription and walked to the telephone for the purpose of calling the officers, the accused fled from the store. The handing of the forged prescription to the druggist to be filled was an uttering as that term is hereinabove defined.””

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