State v. Thornton’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“had admitted kicking in the victim's door and stealing several items but had claimed that someone else must have taken the rest. We held that the defendant's criminal activities caused the loss of all the items, because, by kicking in the door, he had created free access to the house for the hypothetical second thief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“theft of the car stereo is not a criminal activity attributable to defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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