State v. McCutcheon’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 supreme court has defined this offense as requiring a fraudulent representation of a past or existing fact by one who knows of its falsity, in order to induce the person to whom it is made to part with something valuable.”

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

2. “A promise to do something in the future cannot constitute the basis of a prosecution for obtaining goods under false pretenses.”

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