McDowell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “‘ ‘ The statute was designed to relieve the State from the burden of proving the actual value of bonds, bills, notes, etc., by making the face value to be deemed the real value, without further proof. It surely was never before thought that two insolvent debtors, who had refused to pay their indebtedness, might steal the evidence of their indebtedness, and successfully plead insolvency and a refusal to pay in justification of the larceny.””

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