State v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

38 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An act is not a crime when committed or omitted under an ignorance or mistake of fact which disproves any criminal intent. Where a person honestly and reasonably believes certain facts, and acts or fails to act based upon a belief in those facts, which, if true, would not result in the commission of a crime, the person is not guilty.”

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

2. “[w]hen a defendant's theory is supported by law and has some foundation in evidence, however tenuous , the defendant has a right to present it.”

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