State v. Bass’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

69 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is a defense to the charge of Second Degree Murder, Reckless Manslaughter and Negligent Homicide that the victim’s death was not the result of any criminal conduct on the part of the Defendant, but that it resulted from a superseding cause. In regard to causation, an intervening event becomes a superseding cause only when its occurrence was both unforeseeable and when with the benefit of hindsight it may be described as abnormal or extraordinary.”

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

2. “[E]rroneously admitted evidence is harmless in a criminal case only when the reviewing court is satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not impact the verdict.”

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

3. “[a] statement describing or explaining an event or condition made while the declarant was perceiving the event or condition, or immediately thereafter.”

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