Taylor v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'In order that the actor's conduct may be reckless, it is not necessary that he himself recognize it as being extremely dangerous. His inability to realize the danger may be due to his own reckless temperament or to the abnormally favorable results of previous conduct of the same sort. It is enough that he knows or has reason to know of circumstances which would bring home to the realization of the ordinary, reasonable man the highly dangerous character of his conduct.' " Id. at 264-65 , 366 P.2d 735 (quoting Restatement § 500, comment c). Thus, as we reiterated in Taylor , " 'expressions such as "reckless disregard”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Gutierrez-Medina

2. “such expressions are appropriate to describe the hypothetical state of mind of the hypothetical reasonable man who, faced with the dangerous situation, nevertheless elected to encounter it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Gutierrez-Medina

3. “are not to be taken to mean that there must be proof that defendant actually had such a state of mind.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Gutierrez-Medina