Ahearn v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

43 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[Paul B. Galvan and Rose S. Galvan] intentionally and knowingly, by omission, engage[d] in conduct that caused serious bodily injury to Christopher Paul Galvan, a child younger than 14 years of age, by then and there knowingly omitting and failing to provide support and knowingly omitting to provide the minimal requirements of said child for food and medical care, and the said Paul B. Galvan and Rose S. Galvan aka Rose Sclafani were the parents of Christopher Paul Galvan and had the duty by statute to provide such support, food, and medical care for said child, and said parents could have provided and were legally obligated to provide such support,' food and medical care, and there further being a statute providing that such omission is an offense.”

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

2. “(1) it is established by proof of the same or less than all the facts required to establish the commission of the offense charged; (2) it differs from the offense charged only in the respect that a less serious injury or risk of injury to the same person, property, or public interest suffices to establish its commission; (3) it differs from the offense charged only in the respect that a less culpable mental state suffices to establish its commission; or (4) it consists of an attempt to commit the offense charged or an otherwise included offense.”

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

3. “Based on the facts that appellant delayed seeking medical treatment for T.P. when the medical evidence showed that T.P. had visible signs of distress, [defendant] had emergency medical training, and [doctor] stated that it was possible that T.P. would have survived if he had received medical care shortly after the injury occurred, the jury could have found that appellant acted recklessly and grossly deviated from the standard of care that an ordinary person would have exercised under all the circumstances as viewed from his standpoint.”

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