Ex parte Pells’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “be prosecuted and punished in the same manner”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Smiley v. State · 558 So. 2d 994 - State v. Watts

2. “We do not discover, nor is there, in the act of May 25th, 1891, anything which purports to repeal or amend the act of 1881. Any offense committed under the act of 1881, prior to the approval of the latter act, or even subsequent to it, can be prosecuted and punished in the same manner as it could be, had the act of [1891] never been enacted. The offenses defined or created by the former act, and the punishment demanded against any of them by it, are in no wise changed or affected by the act of 1891, and a court would look in vain to the later act to find in it anything changing either the nature of the offenses created, or even the character or degree of the punishment authorized by the act of 1881. In so far as the act of 1881 authorizes the prosecution or punishment of any person, it is not affected by the act of [1891]; the same punishment may be inflicted, and the same form of sentence is to be entered as before the approval of the later act.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 558 So. 2d 994 - State v. Watts

3. “no further proceedings can, after the repealing law takes effect, be taken under the law so repealed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 558 So. 2d 994 - State v. Watts