State v. Rudner’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 object of the legislature was, not the punishment of one who feloniously abstracts water which is the property of one of these companies — for that crime, like any other felonious taking, is dealt with in other provisions of the statute — but the protection of these companies against the fraudulent abstraction of water by methods so insidious and secret as not to be readily discoverable. And in order to effect that object the legislature created an entirely separate and distinct offence which it made punishable without regard to whether the larcenous purpose which led to the tampering with the meter was accomplished or not.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 190 N.J. Super. 544 - State v. Insabella