State v. Adviento.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 10 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “EMED is an affirmative defense to murder or attempted murder, 'which reduces the offense to manslaughter or attempted manslaughter' if 'the defendant was, at the time the defendant caused the death of the other person, under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance for which there is a reasonable explanation.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Thromman

2. “If the defense is an affirmative defense, the defendant is entitled to an acquittal if the trier of fact finds . . . by a preponderance of the evidence the specified fact or facts which negative penal liability.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Sylva

3. “The reasonableness of the explanation shall be determined from the viewpoint of a reasonable person in the circumstances as the defendant believed them to be.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Thromman