State v. Startup’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1984
17 state decisions
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Most-quoted passages
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“But the act here forbidden is not necessarily criminal. It is not indictable at common law without the statute. It is only criminal when it proceeds from a criminal mind, and the indictment must be framed according to common law forms. Hence, in the absence of express words in the statute, making the act criminal, there must be a charge in the indictment that the offence was committed with an evil intent, or willfully. 1 Russ. on Crimes 49; Bish. on Stat. Crimes, § 132, note 61; State v. Halsted et al., supra [ 39 N.J.L. 402 ]. It follows that these two indictments are defective in not charging that the omissions to advertise, according to the terms of the statute, were done with an evil intent, or willfully. There is no allegation of willfulness, guilty knowledge or fraudulent intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.