Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Given the plain language and the history of the provisions at issue, we conclude that [the transferred intent statute] does indeed authorize the transfer of a culpable mental state between offenses contained in the same statute and also between greater and lesser included offenses. That authorization may be overridden by language defining a particular offense, as in the offense of capital murder, but no such impediment arises with respect to the injury-to-a-child offense.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Alexandro Jordan Bravo v. State · McFadden v. State

2. “(b) A person is nevertheless criminally responsible for causing a result if the only difference between what actually occurred and what he desired, contemplated, or risked is that: (1) a different offense was committed; or (2) a different person or property was injured, harmed, or otherwise affected.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McFadden v. State

3. “A person is nevertheless criminally responsible for causing a result if the only difference between what actually occurred and what he desired, contemplated, or risked is that ... a different offense was committed [.] 11”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rodriguez v. State