State v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Of course larceny involves a criminal intent — a felonious taking to deprive the owner of his property — as do many other crimes. But, if A. is charged with murder of B., it would not be competent, in the absence of proof of a general plan or scheme or that the offenses were parts of one entire transaction, to show the murder of C. by A. to prove a malicious intent to kill B. or to disprove a claimed accidental or justifiable killing. Nor, in the absence of such exceptions, would it be competent to show that A. Feloniously took C.’s cow to prove that he feloniously took B.’s or to disprove a claimed innocent taking. To bring it within the rule it should be made to appear that the motive, the intent which inspired or prompted the felonious taking of the one, also inspired or prompted the taking of the other, and that the two were so related and connected as to be parts of one transaction.””

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