Commonwealth v. Hendricks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In other words, the risk must be a good deal more than a possibility, and its disregard substantially more than negligence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 94 Mass. App. Ct. 558 - Commonwealth v. Santos · Commonwealth v. Hardy

2. “a clearly expressed legislative intent to depart from the common-law meaning of the words 'wanton or reckless' "). To be substantial and unjustifiable, "[t]he risk must be of such nature and degree that disregard of the risk constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe in the situation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 94 Mass. App. Ct. 558 - Commonwealth v. Santos

3. “vagueness challenge to the statute does not involve a claim that an overbroad statute threatens interests protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Brown