State v. Whiteaker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Upon a trial for having, by any false pretense, obtained the signature of any person to any written instrument, or obtained from any person any valuable thing, no evidence can be admitted of a false pretense expressed orally and unaccompanied by a false token or writing; but such pretense, or some note or memoran dum thereof, must he in writing, and either subscribed by or in the handwriting of the defendant. * * ’ ’”

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

2. ““If any person shall, by any false pretenses, or by any privy or false token, and with intent to defraud, obtain, or attempt to obtain from any other person, any money or property whatever, or shall obtain or attempt to obtain with the like intent the signature of any person to any writing the false making ‘whereof would be punishable as forgery, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished. * ””

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

3. ““Oil taken from holes dug at three feet in depth from our property in California.””

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