Hensel v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

35 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We need not reach the issue of whether in some cases a less specific criminal intent would suffice — for example, whether a defendant who furnished a weapon to aid in a robbery could be found guilty if the weapon were used to murder rather than to rob the intended victim. We also need not decide whether a defendant who furnishes a weapon with the intent that it be used for criminal purposes, but without knowledge as to the particular crime to be perpetrated, could be found guilty as an accomplice.”

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

2. “Hensel’s last argument on appeal is that [separate convictions] for burglary and malicious destruction of property are not permissible under Whitton v. State, 479 P.2d 802 (Alaska 1970). The state concedes error on this point, recognizing that “the burglary and malicious destruction charges constitute essentially one course of conduct designed to accomplish one specific objective — the destruction of the Eagle River bunker and its contents.””

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

3. “Buyingreceiving, or concealing stolen property. A person who buys, receives, or conceals money, goods, bank notes or other things which may be the subject of larceny and which has been taken, embezzled, or stolen from another person, knowing it to have been taken, embezzled, or stolen, is punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 and by imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than three years.”

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