Goldsmith v. Cheney’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Accessory before the fact.' — Every person who shall aid or abet in the commission of any felony, or who shall counsel, encourage, hire, command, or otherwise procure such felony to be committed, shall be deemed an accessory before the fact, and may be indicted, informed against, tried and convicted in the same manner as if he were a principal, and either before or after the principal offender is convicted or indicted or informed against; and upon such conviction he shall suffer the same punishment and penalties as are prescribed by law for the punishment of the principal.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Goldsmith v. Cheney · Hopkinson v. State

2. ““ * * * By decisions of this Nation’s courts in cases dealing with felonies in which the preparations occurred in one state and the actual felony in another, it has been held, consistent with the common law rule, that absent a statute which provides otherwise an accessory before the fact may be tried where the accessorial act took place and only there. [Citations] Such interpretations are correct, and accordingly, the petition for writ of habeas corpus must be dismissed.” 468 P.2d at 816 .”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Goldsmith v. Cheney · Hopkinson v. State

3. “[c]ertainly it must be conceded as a general proposition that our criminal laws do not reach a crime committed beyond the borders of this state.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Rios v. State