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← 53 Ariz. 295 - State v. Lee

State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis

1939

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
2
states following
November 2024
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Horsfall · Olson v. State · 90 Tex. Crim. 100 - Scott v. State · 106 W. Va. 46 - State v. Masters · Thompson 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Common sense and justice alike revolt at the idea that a man may be held criminally responsible for something which he does not even know he has done. . This of course does not mean that the state must prove such knowledge by positive and direct evidence only. Circumstantial evidence is just as admissible upon this issue as upon any other . ..” 53 Ariz. at 301 , 88 P.2d at 998 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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