State v. Debarros’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 65 state decisions

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

1. “[I]ntent is the status in a person's mind. It is the act of an intellect.... [I]ntent is required for the commission of the crime. Intent is defined in the statutes. It binds you and me. And [ General Statutes § 53a-3 (11) ] states that a person acts intentionally with respect to a result or to conduct described by a statute defining an offense when his conscious objective is to cause a result or to engage in such conduct. Murder is the unlawful taking of the life of another with an intent to take that life. The person charged with that offense must act intentionally, the intent to take a life at the time the life is taken, and it must be by the act of the person charged. Intentional conduct is purposeful conduct, rather than conduct that is accidental or inadvertent or unintentional conduct.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 181 Conn. App. 167 - Cator v. Commissioner of Correction · 175 Conn. App. 807 - Salters v. Commissioner of Correction

2. “[t]he order in which the instruction was read likely misled the jury to believe that to intend to cause the death of another person means either to intend to cause the death of that person or to intend to engage in conduct that causes the death of that person. Similarly, when the court referred to the improper instruction as it charged the jury on attempt to commit murder and assault in the first degree with a firearm, the jury was also likely misled in the same manner.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 181 Conn. App. 167 - Cator v. Commissioner of Correction · 175 Conn. App. 807 - Salters v. Commissioner of Correction

3. “A person is guilty of an attempt to commit a crime if, acting with the kind of mental state required for commission of the crime, he: (1) Intentionally engages in conduct which would constitute the crime if attendant circumstances were as he believes them to be; or (2) intentionally does or omits to do anything which, under the circumstances as he believes them to be, is an act or omission constituting a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in his commission of the crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 185 Conn. App. 1 - State v. Ruiz-Pacheco