State v. Doty’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Every person who shall be convicted of having concealed any offender after the commission of any felony, or of having given to such offender any other aid, knowing that he has committed a felony, with the intent and in order that he may escape or avoid arrest, trial, conviction or punishment, and no other, shall be deemed an accessory after the fact, and upon conviction shall be punished by confinement and hard labor not exceeding five years, or in the county jail not exceeding one year nor less than six months, or by fine not less than four hundred dollars, or by both a fine not less than one hundred dollars and imprisonment in a county jail not less than three months.””

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

2. “. . . But merely suffering the principal to escape will not make a party an accessory after the fact, for it amounts, at most, but to a mere omission. . . . The defendant gave no personal assistance of this kind, and the mere fact that she asked her daughter to tell the county attorney a falsehood with-respect to the paternity of the illegitimate child, although reprehensible, does not, in our opinion, constitute the aid which the statute contemplates, or amount to an offense under the statute.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. López Ballester