State v. Crow’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “From the circumstantial evidence in this case, the jury could have found that the defendant broke the glass and split the burlap with the knife, tire tool or screw driver, and thus entered the business house with an instrument.... In our opinion, the evidence is sufficient to sustain a finding by the jury that an entry, with intent to commit a felony, actually occurred.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 454 Pa. Super. 524 - Commonwealth v. Giddings

2. ““ ‘In considering whether a person has entered after breaking, the Court charges you that a person may enter by inserting the hand or the finger, or an instrument held in the hand, when such is done with the intent to commit a felony therein, and proof of entry of the entire body is not required.’ ””

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

3. “For the offense of burglary, any penetration, however slight, of the space within the house by the defendant, or by any part of his body or by any instrument inserted for the purpose of perpetrating a felony therein, is a sufficient entry.”

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