State v. English’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““There is no such showing here, and therefore we cannot say that the complaint in the record, and upon which the appellant was tried, is not the original one, nor can we say from the record that it has not been identified and certified to as such. Unless the contrary affirmatively appears, we are bound to presume that the proceedings were regular, and that the requirements of the statute were followed. It is true that the certification has not been indorsed on or attached to the complaint, but that is not essential. It is enough if it otherwise appears to have been certified to or authenticated. . . . Instead of an apparent defect from which a prejudice to the defendant might have resulted, there is that in the record which tends to show that the defendant was tried in the district court on exactly the same charge upon which he was tried and convicted in the justice’s court, and that is the substantial requirement of the statute which it is claimed was violated.” (p. 630.) (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Belisle