State v. Ruben’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
February 1987
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 18 Utah 2d 16 - Taylor v. Johnson · State v. Chavez · Black v. McKnight · State v. Capps · State v. Durrant
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.
“With criminal negligence or is criminally negligent with respect to circumstances surrounding his conduct or the result of his conduct when he ought to be aware of a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise in all the circumstances as viewed from the actor’s standpoint. 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McPhee
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.