State v. Trombley’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Yoh (2006), State v. Kent Richland, Jr. (2015)
34 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Morissette v. United States · United States v. Bailey · State v. Kinney · State v. Carter · State v. Doucette
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) if the element involves the nature of his conduct or the attendant circumstances, he is aware that his conduct is of that nature or that such circumstances exist; and (ii) if the element involves a result of his conduct, he is aware that it is practically certain that his conduct will cause such a result.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O'Dell · State v. O'DELL“[O]ne of criminal law's most basic principles is that a person is not criminally liable for causing a bad result if he or she did not have some culpable mental state with respect to that result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O'DELL“acted with the conscious purpose of causing serious bodily injury or that he acted under circumstances where he was practically certain”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jackowski
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.