232 Or. App. 567 - State v. Cervantes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'Recklessly,' when used with respect to a result or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, means that a person is aware of and consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the result will occur or that the circumstance exists. The risk must be of such nature and degree that disregard thereof constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would observe in the situation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 296 Or. App. 1 - State v. Walker

2. “prohibits conduct that is likely to expose another person to harm; it is not limited to conduct that actually exposes another person to harm.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 296 Or. App. 1 - State v. Walker

3. “the relevant harm need only be possible or potential.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 296 Or. App. 1 - State v. Walker