State v. Carr’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Deliberation and premeditation simply mean that the act was done with reflection and conceived beforehand. No specific length of time is required for such deliberation. It would be a most difficult task for human wit to furnish any safe standard in this particular. Every case must rest on its own circumstances. The law, reason, and common sense unite in declaring that an apparently instantaneous act may be accompanied with such circumstances as to leave no doubt of its being the result of premeditation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Anselmo

2. ““If it [the killing] was premeditated, it would be murder in the first degree. That is to say, if the killing was murder, then, if it was done with premeditation, it would be in the first degree. That term, ‘premeditated,’ was not meant to require any particular length of time that such premeditation should have been going on prior to the fatal act. But if, in fact, it did precede the act, it gave character to the crime.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Anselmo