38 Or. App. 465 - State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 8 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““There is nothing in the nature of a railroad boxcar which indicates that it is adapted for carrying on business therein. It is conceivable that a boxcar may be adapted for that purpose or for accommodating people overnight, but there is no evidence that this boxcar was so adapted or that it was anything other than a structure for the storage of goods during their transportation. Therefore, we conclude that this railway boxcar was not a building as that term is used in the burglary statutes and the acquittal should have been granted.””

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

2. “The Commentary to the Oregon Criminal Code explains that the purpose of this expansive definition of building is “to include those structures and vehicles which typically contain human beings for extended periods of time, in accordance with the original and basic rationale of the crime: protection against invasion of premises likely to terrorize occupants.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Grisel