State v. Pine’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 12 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In cases of murder the rule at common law undoubtedly was that no person should be adjudged “by any act whatever to kill another who does not die by it within a year and a day thereafter....” And such is the rule in this country in prosecutions for murder, except in jurisdictions where it may be otherwise prescribed by statute.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Rogers · United States v. Jackson

2. “[T]he long life of the rule may result from the infrequency with which the issue has been raised. Courts, therefore have not been given the opportunity to address it.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Rogers · State v. Vance

3. “[a]lthough the ex post facto prohibition applies to legislation only, it has been held that the due-process clause prevents the accomplishment by judicial construction of that which is not permitted by statute.”

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