State v. Ricksecker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is contended in behalf of the defendant that he should have been granted a new trial because under the whole evidence if he was guilty at all he was guilty of several distinct acts of embezzlement, inasmuch as he was under a duty to turn over to the city at stated intervals the public funds then in his hands. The mere failure to perform this periodical duty, however, did not of itself render him guilty of a criminal offense. It is possible' that he did upon several different occasions wrongfully convert to his own use the money then in his possession, but the evidence is consistent with the view that there was no criminal intent, and consequently no crime, until the entire missing amount had accumulated, and that he then wrongfully by one act embezzled the entire sum. This feature of the case appears to have been sufficiently covered by the instructions, and we are unable to perceive that the defendant has any just cause of complaint in connection therewith.” (p. 501.)”

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