Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “"`"Forgery is not established by the bare fact that one man has signed the name of another to a writing having apparent legal significance because the signing (1) may have been authorized, in which case the writing is not false , or (2) though unauthorized may have been in the bona fide belief in the existence of such authority, in which case, although the writing is actually false, it was prepared without intent to defraud." Perkins[, Criminal Law 341,] 352 [(2d ed. 1969)].'"”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 794 So. 2d 415 - Evans v. State

2. “reasonable possibility that it may operate to cause injury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 412 So. 2d 822 - Johnson v. State