State v. Campos’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 138 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably State v. Varela (1999), State v. Coffin (1999)
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 114 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Prestidge v. United States · Santillanes v. State · State v. Wilson · State v. Ortega · State v. Bitting
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 138 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“create a strong probability of death or great bodily harm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In addition to proof that the defendant caused (or aided and abetted) the killing, there must be proof that the defendant intended to kill (or was knowingly heedless that death might result from his conduct). An unintentional or accidental killing will not suffice. The intent to kill need not be a “willful, deliberate and premeditated” intent as contemplated by the definition of first degree murder in Subsection 30-2-1(A)(1), nor need the act be “greatly dangerous to the lives of others, indicating a depraved mind regardless of human life,” as contemplated by the definition in Subsection (A)(3). Indeed, an intent to kill in the form of knowledge that the defendant’s acts “create a strong probability of death or great bodily harm” to the victim or another, so that the killing would be only second degree murder under Section 30-2-1(B) if no felony were involved, is sufficient to constitute murder in the first degree when a felony is involved — or so the legislature has determined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Duffy“It is important not to confuse the phrase 'general-intent crime' with that of 'general criminal intent,' which is a distinct concept. General criminal intent is the term used to define the mens rea for a crime that has no stated mens rea. This mens rea is defined as conscious wrongdoing or the purposeful doing of an act that the law declares to be a crime. The class of general-intent crimes on the other hand is best defined as the those crimes which are not specific-intent crimes, which would include both crimes with a mens rea of general criminal intent and those with a mens rea of knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.