Commonwealth v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 14 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) that a false statement of fact was made; (2) that the defendant knew or believed the statement to be false when he made it; (3) that the defendant intended that the person to whom he made the statement would rely on it; and (4) that the person to whom the false statement was made did rely on it and, consequently, parted with property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Old Republic National Title Insurance v. Levasseur (In re Levasseur)

2. “Although couched in the form of a loan, the transaction could still result in a larceny by false pretense even if the defendant intended to repay the loan and even if the loan had been repaid; the gravamen of the charge is obtaining the funds by a false pretense and not whether there was present intent to repay or actual repayment.”

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

3. “single, continuing, criminal impulse or intent ... pursuant to the execution of a general larcenous scheme”

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