2001 OK CR 34 - Frederick v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 27 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““As there was insufficient evidence of intoxication presented at trial from which a rational jury could find that the defendant was ‘so utterly intoxicated’ that his mental powers were totally overcome, rendering it impossible for him to form the specific intent to kill, an instruction on voluntary intoxication was not warranted, and it would have been error to instruct the jury on that defense. Cratvford, 1992 OK CR 62, ¶ 53 , 840 P.2d at 638 ; Jackson, 1998 OK CR 39, ¶ 67 , 964 P.2d at 892 ; Taylor v. State, 2000 OK CR 6, ¶20 , 998 P.2d 1225, 1230 , cert. denied, 531 U.S. 1157 , 121 S.Ct. 1109 , 148 L.Ed.2d 978 (2001).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2002 OK CR 40 - McElmurry v. State

2. “if it were available as a criminal defense.). The United States Supreme Court has found an exception to this rule and required that the defendant have subjective knowledge of the law in question in only two circumstances. T7 First, the U.S. Supreme Court requires subjective knowledge in tax cases and currency structuring cases because both instances involve”

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

3. ““However, each material element does not have to be corroborated by facts independent of the confession. [Citation omitted.] In fact, inconsistencies between the facts proven and the facts related in the confession may exist, so long as the inconsistencies do not overwhelm the similarities.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2002 OK CR 40 - McElmurry v. State