Plass v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2011
1 district · 6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Sandstrom v. Montana · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · Southern Railway Co. v. Seaboard Allied Milling Corp. · Henry v. State
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a matter of common sense, in judging the sufficiency of the evidence as to the state of mind, the jury must be able to weigh the conduct of the defendant. Otherwise, in most situations, the only evidence would be the defendant’s own self-interested testimony.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Deputy v. State · Lemons v. State“Count 2 of the indictment charges the defendant with assault in the second degree. In order to find the defendant guilty of assault in the second degree, you must find that all of the following elements have been established beyond a reasonable doubt: 1. The defendant recklessly caused physical injury to [his ex-girlfriend]. Physical injury means impairment of physical condition or substantial pain. 2. The defendant caused the physical injury by striking [his ex-girlfriend] with a dangerous instrument. Dangerous instrument means any instrument, article, or substance which, under the circumstances in which it is used, attempted to be used or threatened to be used, is readily capable of causing death or serious physical injury. 3. The defendant acted recklessly. A person acts recklessly with respect to an element of an offense when the person is aware of and consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the elements exist or will result from the conduct. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that such disregard therefore constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe in the situation. If, after considering all of the evidence, you find that the State has established beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant ... acted in such a manner as to satisfy all of the elements which I have just stated at or about the date and place stated in the indictment, you must find the defendant guilty of assault in the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.