State v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The description of the offense must be technically exact. The special matter of the whole fact should be set forth in the indictment, with such certainty that the offense may judicially appear to the court. Wharton Criminal Law, 285, 287. “It is settled by a long line of precedents, resting on principle, that, in the prosecution for the commission of a statutory offense, the words of the statute, or others of fully equivalent import, should be employed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. McDonald