Schroeder v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A person acts recklessly, or is reckless, with respect to circumstance.⅜ surrounding her conduct or the result of her conduct when she is aware of but consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that its disregard constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise under all the circumstances as viewed from the actor’s standpoint.”

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

2. “Murder is a ‘result of conduct’ offense, which means that the culpable mental state relates to the result of the conduct, i.e., the causing of the death.”); Turner v. State, 805 S.W.2d 423, 430 (Tex.Crim. App. 1991) (”

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