State v. Gerald’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “bodily injury which creates a high probability of death, or which causes serious permanent disfigurement, or which causes a permanent or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ or other serious bodily harm.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Halvorson · State of Minnesota v. Quintin Deshun Dye

2. “[t]he great bodily harm element as defined by the legislature mandates that we focus on injury to the victim rather than the actions of the assailant.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Minnesota v. Quintin Deshun Dye · State v. Maddox

3. “We believe the state misreads the high probability of death portion of the great bodily harm statute. The statute defines great bodily harm as " bodily injury which creates a high probability of death." [Minn.Stat. § 609.02 subd. 8 (1990)] (emphasis added). Under the plain language of the statute, the injury itself must be life-threatening. The fact that a lesser injury is located near a major organ or vessel and therefore could have been more serious is not sufficient to satisfy the statute.”

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