State v. Morales’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 37 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he State was not required to prove that Defendant intended to injure or even frighten [the officer]. Instead, the State was required to prove ... that Defendant’s conduct caused [the officer] to believe Defendant was about to hit him with his vehicle, that a reasonable person in [the officer’s] position would have believed he was about to be hit by the vehicle, and that Defendant’s conduct threatened [the officer’s] safety. [The officer] testified that he thought he was going to be hit by the vehicle and that the vehicle was so close that he could feel it brush his clothes as it went by. This is sufficient evidence to support the conviction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Ramon Silva

2. “(1) whether there is substantial evidence to support the conviction without reference to the improperly admitted evidence; (2) whether there is such a disproportionate volume of permissible evidence that, in comparison, the amount of improper evidence appears so minuscule that it could not have contributed to the conviction; and (3) whether there is substantial conflicting evidence to discredit the State’s testimony.”

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

3. “[t]he [s]tate was not required to prove that [the defendant] intended to assault [the bystander], but only that he did an unlawful act which caused [the bystander] to reasonably believe that she was in danger of receiving an immediate battery, that the act was done with a deadly weapon, and that it was done with general criminal intent.”

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