State v. Blount’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 8 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The property which a man hath in animals, ferce naturae, is a qualified property; that is, he may have the privilege of hunting, taking and killing them on his own premises, to the exclusion of others. He has but a transient property in these animals, usually called game, so long as they continue within his premises. 2 Black, Com. 394. This qualified, transient property, is not taken away by the statute. One who may have the right to take fish from such waters as are specified in the statute, is not denied the right to do so; but, in order to the preservation of fish and prevent their destruction, the state, in the exercise of its police power, simply forbids them from being taken by the use of certain prohibited methods. He can exercise such right in any other method than those which the statute prohibits.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gratz v. McKee