Dorrell v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 25 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is clear from the record and from the .nature of the devices seized that the money was within the mechanism of the slot machines and was not disclosed until the order for their destruction was obeyed. Clearly, these were what is known as ‘money machines’ and were operated by placing a coin in a slot and manipulating a lever; when the coin became a part of the device for operating the machine and if, perchance, the operator was lucky, it released other coins from the internal workings of the machine and expelled them therefrom. Under such circumstances the coins, and all of them, were as much a part of the gambling device as was the lever, or dials, or slot; the machine could not be operated without their use, and the machines, as they were when seized by the sheriff, could not ‘pay’ except for the coins therein.” 79 A.L.R. 1000 .”

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

2. ““In the ordinary gambling game wherein money changes hands, the winner -undoubtedly reduces it to possession, but where the money is but entrapped as in a slot machine the ‘possession’ is at least qualified; it has never come into the hands of the operator and, as shown above, remains a part of the machine until released.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Schepps v. City of El Paso