State v. Williams’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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “You are further instructed that if you find the defendant guilty of Stealing Without Consent, as submitted in Instruction No. 5, the court may, under the law, sentence the defendant to either: 1. Imprisonment for a term fixed by the court, but not to exceed the term assessed and declared by the jury in its verdict, or 2. The payment of a fine, the amount of which would be determined by the court in accordance with applicable statutes, or 3. Both such imprisonment and the payment of such a fine. In your deliberations your duty is to determine whether the defendant is guilty or innocent, and, if you find him guilty, to assess and declare the punishment as directed in other instructions given to you. (Emphasis added.)”

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