State v. McKnight’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

74 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) “child abuse or neglect” means an act or omission by any person which causes harm to the child’s physical health or welfare; (2) “harm” to a child’s health or welfare occurs when a person: (a) inflicts or allows to be inflicted upon the child physical injury, including injuries sustained as a result of excessive corporal punishment; (b) fails to supply the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or health care, and the failure to do so causes a physical injury or condition resulting in death; or (c) abandons the child resulting in the child’s death.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Greene · State v. Martucci

2. “A person is guilty of homicide by child abuse if the person ... causes the death of a child under the age of eleven while committing child abuse or neglect, and the death occurs under circumstances manifesting an extreme indifference to human life.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Greene

3. “Another pathologist, Dr. Woodward, who was qualified as an expert in pediatric pathology testified. . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 908 So. 2d 914 - Kyser v. Harrison