5 Md. App. 291 - Gordon v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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31 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ . . . [E]vidence of other crimes ... [is admissible) ‘to prove the specific crime charged when it tends to establish (1) motive, (2) intent, (3) absence of mistake or accident, (4) a common scheme or plan embracing the commission of two or more crimes so related to each other that proof of one tends to establish the other, (5) the identity of the person charged with the commission of a crime on trial.’ ””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 23 Md. App. 645 - Chandler v. State · 31 Md. App. 604 - Isaacs v. State

2. ““By its express terms, Section 129 requires proof that the accused (a) was employed as a cashier, servant, agent, clerk or officer by a person or body corporate; (b) that in such capacity he received personal property ‘for or in the name or on account of his master or employer’; and (c) that he thereafter fraudulently embezzled such property. The statute does not require that the embezzled property be entrusted to the accused directly by the master or employer; it may be entrusted by another person on his behalf.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 7 Md. App. 269 - Couture v. State · 14 Md. App. 245 - Gordon v. State

3. ““Whoever being a . . . servant . . . shall fraudulently embezzle any money . . . which . . . shall be . . . taken into possession by him, for . . . his master or employer, shall be deemed to have feloniously stolen the same from his master or employer, although such money . . . was not received into the possession of such master ... otherwise than by the actual possession of his ... servant...”

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