State v. Leonard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 12 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Where the false pretense is expressed orally and is accompanied by a false token or writing, it is not necessary that there be any note or memorandum thereof in writing, either subscribed by the defendant or in his handwriting. Where, however, the false pretense is expressed orally and is not accompanied by a false token or writing, there must be some note or memorandum thereof in writing either subscribed by or in the handwriting of the defendant.”

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

2. ““When the statute makes it a crime to do this or that, mentioning several things disjunctively, the indictment may, as a general rule, embrace the whole in a single count, but it must use the conjunction ‘and’ where ‘or’ occurs in the statute, else it will be defective for uncertainty.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Traveller

3. ““The rule has been announced in many eases in this state, in the last 3S years, that, where a statute states the acts necessary to constitute an offense disjunctively, the indictment may charge all the acts enumerated in the statute conjunctively without being double.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Traveller