Snipes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 42 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““While voluntary intoxication is generally not a defense, intoxication may relieve a defendant of responsibility for a crime if the crime involves a specific intent and if the defendant was so intoxicated as to be incapable of forming or entertaining the required specific intent. If you find from all of the evidence that the defendant was so intoxicated from alcohol as to be incapable of forming or entertaining the required specific intent then he must be found not guilty.””

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

2. ““Normally voluntary intoxication is not a defense in a criminal proceeding. In order for intoxication to relieve appellant from responsibility the crime charged must have involved specific intent and he must have been so intoxicated as to be incapable of entertaining the required specific intent.””

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