State v. Gillum’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. “The Court instructs the jury that the law presumes that every man intends the natural and probable consequences of his own acts, and if you find from the evidence that the defendant unlawfully converted the money received by him, as such public officer, or any amount thereof in excess of thirty dollars, as charged in the information, to *Page 306 have been embezzled, to his own use, you will be authorized to infer therefrom the criminal intent, and that he did [426] intend at the time to embezzle and convert the same to his own use, and to deprive the county and state of the use thereof.”

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

2. “The term `convert' does not imply any criminal intent. It is defined in Black's Law Dictionary, p. 267, as follows: `An unauthorized assumption and exercise of the right of ownership over goods or personal chattels belonging to another, to the alteration of their condition or the exclusion of the owner's rights.' . . . The term `embezzle' is not synonymous with the term `convert,' but is synonymous with the terms `fraudulently convert.'”

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

3. “the appellant `feloniously' or `fraudulently' converted the money”

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