Grable v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

37 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`afford the trier of fact a satisfactory basis for evaluating the truth of the prior statement.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rodriguez v. State · Cardenas v. State

2. “The crime of forgery as defined in the Wyoming statute is one requiring specific intent. Prior eases have characterized the requisite intent as a "fraudulent intent." Dixon v. Williams, Wyo., 584 P.2d 1078 (1978); State Board of Law Examiners v. Goppert, 66 Wyo. 117 , 205 P.2d 124 (1949). The statutory language, however, defining this offense is not as limited as the appellant's argument would assume. Section 6-17, W.S.1957, provides in pertinent part that: "Every person who shall falsely make, alter, forge or counterfeit * * *; or shall utter, publish, pass, or attempt to pass as true and genuine, or cause to be uttered, published or passed, or attempted to be passed, as true and genuine, any of the above named false, altered, forged or counterfeited matters * * * (knowing the same to be false, altered, forged or counterfeited) with intent to prejudice, damage or defraud any person or persons, body politic, corporate, * * * shall be guilty of forgery * * (Emphasis added.) Puk It must be remembered that Oil Resources had in its possession a stolen oil well pumping unit. One of the possible results of the forged documents is that in an action by Oil Resources to recover the purchase price a finder of fact might have been persuaded that the oil well pumping unit in fact was not stolen. In this regard it is important to remember that the identification shown on the invoices for the oil well pumping unit was carefully made to match the spurious tag which had been placed on the oi”

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

3. ““On the Motion for New Trial, concerning the testimony of Dr. Altick, I am not persuaded that this testimony could not have come to light earlier through the exercise of due diligence. It appears to me that the testimony might have been produced before Hart’s testimony was introduced at the second trial, or at least before the conclusion of that trial. “In any event it does not appear to me that the testimony is so material that it would probably produce a different verdict if a new trial were granted. If I had been aware of Dr. Altick’s testimony before ruling upon the question of the ad-misibility [sic] [of] Hart’s former testimony, I think Dr. Altick’s testimony would only have reinforced my earlier opinion that Hart was unavailable despite the good faith effort of the State to secure his attendance. It seems to me that if we accept what is apparently the theory of the Defendant here that Hart and Dr. Mascarahenas were engaged in some kind of undertaking here to procure his absence from the trial that it would have appeared if Hart was willing to go those lengths to be absent, that he would in fact have been unavailable. ⅝: * * ⅜! * sft “Therefore I will deny the motion for a new trial.””

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