Clancy v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “had actual knowledge of the accident,” and noting that, although “knowledge of involvement in an accident is required for criminal liability, ... ‘[djirect evidence of absolute, positive, subjective knowledge may not always be obtainable[, and w]e think it sufficient if the circumstances are such as to induce in a reasonable person a belief that collision has occurred; otherwise a callous person might nullity the humanitarian purpose of the statute by the simple act of immediate flight from an accident scene without ascertaining exactly what had occurred’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 132 So. 3d 916 - Gaulden v. State

2. “actual or constructive knowledge of injury or death is not an element of the felony offense of leaving the scene of an accident.” Dettloff v. State, 120 Nev. 588 , 97 P.3d 586, 590 (2004) (citation omitted). As the Supreme Court of Nevada has reasoned,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pardo v. State

3. “We review the constitutionality of a statute de novo, presuming that a statute is constitutional.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. RIMER (STANLEY) VS. STATE