5 Kan. App. 2d 754 - State v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Involuntary manslaughter under K.S.A. 21-3404 requires an unintentional ‘killing.’ A defendant may be convicted of involuntary manslaughter for an intentional shooting if it is found that the killing of the victim was unintentional.” Syl. ¶ 3. “Deliberately shooting a person with intent to injure, unless justified, is at least a felonious aggravated battery under K.S.A. 21-3414. As such, it cannot be an ‘unlawful act not amounting to a felony’ under the involuntary manslaughter statute (K.S.A. 21-3404) even if the shooting occurs in a city where the discharge of firearms violates a city ordinance.” Syl. ¶ 4.”

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

2. ““One fending off an attack does not have a reckless disregard’ or a ‘indifference and unconcern’ over consequences to the attacker — the victim intends to inflict injury on the attacker, and is legally justified in harboring that intent. Where self-defense is found to exist, the only element which would render the victim’s conduct criminal is the use of excessive force, not the victim’s state of mind.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 27 Kan. App. 2d 597 - State v. Bradford