State v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “an addict in [the defendant’s] state suffers from a “compulsion” to obtain drugs. Existence of a compulsion, or a compelling need, does not tend to negate a conscious purpose to cause certain results. Nor does evidence of a compelling need tend to show that a defendant lacked conscious awareness of the attendant circumstances of his actions. In fact, evidence of a compelling need tends to confirm, the conclusion that defendant acted with awareness and with the conscious object of fulfilling that need.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Maine v. Collin R. Giroux