State v. Coss’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 14 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. ““While the prosecution is not required or compelled to prove that the crime was committed on the date alleged in the indictment, it is required to prove some particular act constituting the crime and to rely upon that for a conviction. If it selects some particular act, and the defendant meets the charge with evidence tending to show that it was impossible for him to have committed such act, the jury ought not to be permitted to find the defendant guilty, because it may believe, from the testimony, that he did, in fact, commit some other criminal act of a similar nature to that charged.””

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

2. ““The indictment charged but one act, and while it was not necessary for the state to prove that it was committed on the date stated in the indictment, it was important that all the jurors should agree upon the same particular act, and that the instructions be so framed as to confine their inquiry to that point. ’ ’”

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