417 So. 2d 287 - State v. Oxx’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 23 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Although no specific intent may be required, ... the State must still prove general intent, that is, that the defendant intended to do the act prohibited... .”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 525 So. 2d 957 - Tollefson v. State · 854 So. 2d 758 - Garcia v. State

2. “[A] third constitutional restriction may come into play where the statute imposes an affirmative duty to act and then penalizes the failure to comply. In such an instance, if the failure to act otherwise amounts to essentially innocent conduct, the failure of the penal statute to require some specific intent or knowledge may violate due process.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 586 So. 2d 1280 - State v. Gruen · 868 So. 2d 512 - State v. Giorgetti

3. “[m]any of these offenses are not in the nature of positive aggressions or invasions, with which the common law so often dealt, but are in the nature of neglect where the law requires care, or inaction where it imposes a duty.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 586 So. 2d 1280 - State v. Gruen · 568 So. 2d 992 - Wolfram v. State