State v. Beeman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The fact that property identified as belonging to the complaining witness was found at the home of the appellant might he insufficient in itself to warrant the verdict, but there was evidence tending to show that the property, a feather bed, was not only in the possession of the appellant, but that the feathers had been removed and the tick concealed from casual observation in a barrel of dirty clothes; that appellant had in his possession several flour sacks partially filled with feathers; that he endeavored to toll an officer, who held a search warrant, out of the house on pretense of going to the cellar, after a word in a whispered undertone to his wife; that appellant and his wife first denied possession of the feather bed, and upon discovery of the tick, made conflicting statements to the officer; that tracks of a two-wheeled cart drawn by two horses were discovered in front of the house upon the return of the owner; that the cart had been stopped and from it foot tracks led to and from the house; that the cart tracks were followed for some distance in the direction of appellant’s home; that the appellant was the owner of, and frequently drove about the country in, a two-wheeled cart drawn by two horses, and was seen in the vicinity of the house burglarized about the time the burglary must have occurred. The bed tick was positively identified by the person (a sister of the complaining witness) who made it. The case here presented is not nearly so strong in favor of appe”

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