Haase v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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

1. ““The third reason assigned for quashing the indictment is that, although the alleged libel is stated to have been in the German language, there is no averment that the person to whom it was sent read or understood it, or had it translated to him, and hence no publication is charged. What is necessary to constitute criminal publication of a libel is a subject which has reecived considerable judicial discussion, notably in the case of King v. Burdett, 4 Barn. & Ald. 95; but it seems to be now generally conceded that, if the accused, with intent to scandalize, affords or causes to be afforded, to another an opportunity of learning the contents of the libelous instrument, he is guilty of a publication, although in fact the contents do not thereby become known. Whart. Cr. L., sec. 1618.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 233 Ill. App. 331 - People v. Cicmanec

2. ““But, when the pleading contains an averment that the defendant published, or caused to be published, the scandalous matter, then the fact that the libel is in a foreign language does not seem to require any special allegation that such language was understood by those to whom it came, for that is implied in the averment that it was published, this word being the proper and technical term to denote an illegal publication (Stark, lib. § 359); only in the proof need an ability to comprehend the foreign tongue be shown.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 233 Ill. App. 331 - People v. Cicmanec