Juarez v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

27 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) the actor reasonably believes the conduct is immediately necessary to avoid imminent harm; (2) the desirability and urgency of avoiding the harm clearly outweigh, according to ordinary standards of reasonableness, the harm sought to be prevented by the law proscribing the conduct; and (3) a legislative purpose to exclude the justification claimed for the conduct does not otherwise plainly appear.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Homer Ray Harrison v. State · Rebecca Victoria Humaran v. State

2. “a defensive instruction is only appropriate when the defendant's defensive evidence essentially admits to every element of the offense including the culpable mental state, but interposes the justification to excuse the otherwise criminal conduct.”

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

3. “an admission to the [otherwise prohibited] conduct, which includes both the act or omission and the requisite mental state.”

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