People v. Williams’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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) A person who, in the course of committing a larceny of any money or other property that may be the subject of larceny, uses force or violence against any person who is present, or who assaults or puts the person in fear, is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 15 years. (2) As used in this section, "in the course of committing a larceny" includes acts that occur in an attempt to commit the larceny, or during commission of the larceny, or in flight or attempted flight after the commission of the larceny, or in an attempt to retain possession of the property.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. United States v. Fuller-Ragland · United States v. Harris

2. “complements our conclusion that the Legislature was not undertaking an effort to (re)codify the common law understanding with the 2004 revisions.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. United States v. Fuller-Ragland · United States v. Harris

3. “A well recognized rule for construction of statutes is that when words are adopted having a settled, definite and well known meaning at common law it is to be assumed they are used with the sense and meaning which they had at common law unless a contrary intent is plainly shown.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. People v. Pinkney