Collins 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. ““Although larceny may be committed by obtaining goods from the owner by stratagem, artifice or fraud, it must be a case in which the owner intended to part only with the temporary possession for a limited specific purpose, and not to part with the property absolutely: .... And this constitutes the distinction, where goods are obtained by stratagem, etc., between larceny and obtaining goods by false pretenses. In the latter case the owner in tends to part with his property absolutely and convey it to the prisoner. To constitute larceny, however, the owner must intend to part only with the temporary possession for a limited and specific purpose, retaining the ownership in himself.””

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