Middlebrook v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 1 district · 42 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If it was necessary that the judgment should be preceded by a trial, and the facts found upon a judicial hearing, as with ordinary criminal cases, it would be otherwise. But in this proceeding nothing of the kind was required. The judicial eye witnessed the act, the judicial mind comprehended all the circumstances of aggravation, provocation, or mitigation; and the fact being thus judicially established, it only remained for the judicial arm to inflict proper punishment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Burke and Brown v. Territory of Oklahoma

2. ““This is not a criminal proceeding within the meaning of the statute. The fine and imprisonment which the court is authorized to inflict for a contempt are not intended as a punishment for a crime committed in violation of the criminal law; and punishment for the contempt is no bar to a prosecution for a breach of the peace, notwithstanding the universal maxim that no one shall be put in jeopardy twice for the same offense.” (Middlebrook v. The State, 43 Conn. 257, 267 .)”

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

3. “[a] court of justice must of necessity have the power to preserve its own dignity and protect itself”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. O'Brien v. O'Brien