6 Md. App. 537 - McDuffy v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The indictment charged that McDuffy forged an ‘American Oil Credit Card.’ Testimony showed that the card was not in any way forged or altered by anyone, but that a receipt for certain merchandise was forged by McDuffy, who contends that he cannot be convicted of forging a receipt under an indictment which charges him with forging a credit card. We do not think it requires a citation of authority to support the proposition that an individual cannot be convicted of forging one instrument when the proof shows that he forged an entirely different instrument. We must, therefore, reverse this conviction.””

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

2. ““ * * * The essence of the crime under § 142 is unauthorized use of a credit card, not the signing of a false document. We have held that convictions for false pretenses and for forgery are not inconsistent * * * [citing authorities], The law is clear that a single transaction can be an offense against two statutes if each statute requires proof of a fact which the other does not * * * [citing authorities]. A false pretense does not require a false signature on a document and a forgery does not require the use of a credit card * *”

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