State v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In a prosecution for the theft of evidences of debt, such as bonds, promissory notes, bills of exchange, checks, or public securities, the value of the instrument is measured according to the standard set up in the statute.... In the absence of statute, ... [t]he value of a check is usually held to be the amount for which it is drawn, but, if the check is worth less than that amount, its actual or market value seems to be the determinative factor.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Harris · 600 So. 2d 957 - Medley v. State

2. “The locked filing cabinet was broken into and property was stolen from a microfilm box that prior to the burglary was in the filing cabinet. The defendant’s fingerprint was found on the microfilm box. Fingerprint evidence alone may support a conviction and the weight to be given to such evidence is for the jury’s determination. Further, we point out that the record contains no evidence that could reasonably be said to show that the defendant’s fingerprint could have gotten on the microfilm box in some innocent manner.”

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