People v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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. “[I]t is impossible to perceive how an individual of even less than ordinary intelligence can fail to be aware that standing on a street and firing at someone in a crowd on the other side is not lawful conduct, and, in fact, defendant’s behavior after the shooting in immediately divesting himself of the gun and lying low for the next several days clearly indicates that he recognized the criminality involved in his actions.... [I]t is simply ludicrous to suppose that a particular statute fails to provide fair notice of forbidden conduct if it does not expressly anticipate every possible criminal contingency____ [I]t is fatuous for [the defendant] to complain that he did not receive fair notice that he was acting in a criminal manner.”

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

2. “a perpetrator of illegal conduct takes his victims as he finds them ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re Brendan G.