State v. Burriss’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 91 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) killed another without malice and unintentionally, but while “engaged in the commission of some unlawful act not amounting to a felony and not naturally tending to cause death or great bodily harm”; or (2) killed another without malice and unintentionally, but while “acting lawfully with reckless disregard of the safety of others.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Cabrera-Pena · State v. Crosby

2. “The fact that one carries a concealed weapon in violation of the law does not render him criminally responsible ... where death is caused by the accidental discharge of the weapon, for in such case death cannot be said to be the natural or necessary result of carrying the weapon in violation of law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Randle · State v. Williams

3. “a person can be acting lawfully, even if he is in unlawful possession of a weapon”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Slater · State v. Williams