State v. Vanek’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 17 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The failure to charge the entry was made in the night time excluded first degree burglary, but the information having charged an unlawful and felonious entry of the barn with intent to steal, thereby necessarily charged second degree burglary. The jury, therefore, could, as it did, find a verdict of guilty of the included lesser offense.” 59 Idaho at 520 , 84 P.2d at 570 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Eubanks · State v. Goodmiller

2. “In the case at bar, the record shows, without contradiction, that the bridles and harness in question were in the Robbins barn on the 4th day of January, 1937, that they *Page 483 were taken from the barn without Robbins' knowledge or consent, that he identified them and that they were his property, which established the fact that the crime of burglary was actually committed by someone. And that brings us to the question (the corpus delicti having been proven). . . .”

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

3. ““Where proof of the corpus delicti is made by circumstantial evidence, ‘it must be sufficient to satisfy the understanding and conscience of the jury beyond a reasonable doubt.’ * * * (N)o greater proof is required to establish the corpus delicti than is required to establish any other essential element of the crime”

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