State v. King’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

192 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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A person acts 'recklessly' with respect to a result or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense when he is aware of and consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that such result will occur or that such circumstance exists. The risk must be of such nature and degree that disregarding it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe in the situation ....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Chyung · 191 Conn. App. 33 - State v. Daniels

2. “[t]o return verdicts of guilty for both attempted murder and assault in the first degree [reckless] ... the jury would have had to find that the defendant simultaneously acted intentionally and recklessly with regard to the same act and the same result, i.e., the injury to the victim.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Chyung · 171 Conn. App. 1 - State v. Rios

3. “A person acts 'intentionally' with respect to a result or to conduct described by a statute defining an offense when his conscious objective is to cause such result or to engage in such conduct ....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Chyung · 191 Conn. App. 33 - State v. Daniels