Chapman v. People’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““on the twelfth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, at the township of Meridian, in said Ingham county, with force and arms did make a felonious assault in and upon the body of one John F._ Morley, in the peace of the people of the State of Michigan then and there being, and then and there willfully and of his malice aforethought did kill and murder the said John F. Morley,” etc.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Sharac

2. ““that the offense is misdescribed in two respects: first, in setting forth the assault and death as concurrent in time, and second, in averring them — which would perhaps have necessarily followed — as concurrent in place,””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Sharac

3. ““when a description is found in an information which uses common-law phrases and references, it must be assumed as intended to have its common-law interpretation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Sharac