4 Ariz. App. 591 - State v. Ovens’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the case of certain crimes it is necessary that a criminal act be accompanied by a specific or particular intent without which the crime is not committed; thus, in the crime of obstructing justice, a necessary fact [to] be proved is the existence in the mind of the defendant of a specific intent to, by means of any threat or violence, deter or prevent a public officer from performing any duty imposed upon the officer by law or to resist, delay or obstruct an officer in the discharge or attempt to discharge any duty of his office or knowingly resist by the use of force or violence the officer in the performance of his duty. Unless such intent as I have just outlined so exists, then that crime is not committed. No act committed by a person while in a state of voluntary intoxication is less criminal by reason of his having been in such condition, but when the actual existence of any particular purpose, motive or intent is a necessary element to constitute any particular crime or degree of crime, you may take into consideration the fact that the accused was intoxicated at the time in determining the purpose, motive or intent with which he committed the act.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 20 Ariz. App. 65 - State v. Fimbres