State v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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. ““Section 560.270 was obviously intended to punish any ‘person who shall buy, or in any way receive . .. any property that shall have been [previously] stolen from another.’ It is apparent that for there to be a ‘person who shall buy’ previously stolen property, there must be a two-party transaction between a seller and a buyer. Likewise, in general context of the statute, any ‘person who shall ... in any way receive’ from another person, denotes a two-party transfer of possession from a donor, giver, passer, etc., to a receiver, recipient, acceptor, etc. This problem appears to have been obviated by the enactment of § 570.080, RSMo 1978 (L.1977 S.B. 60, eff. 1-1-79) which provides: ‘1. A person commits the crime of receiving stolen property if for the purpose of depriving the owner of a lawful interest therein, he receives, retains or disposes of property of another knowing that it has been stolen, or believing it has been stolen .... ’ The words ‘retains’ and ‘disposes 1 can denote single-party transactions which the words in § 560.270 (now repealed) do not.” (Emphasis added).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Sours · State v. Davis