State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Specific criminal intent is that state of mind which exists when the circumstances indicate that the offender actively desired the prescribed criminal consequences to follow his act or failure to act.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 855 So. 2d 408 - State v. Jones · 949 So. 2d 464 - State v. Stringer

2. “Any person who, having a specific intent to commit a crime, does or omits an act for the purpose of and tending directly toward the accomplishing of his object is guilty of an attempt to commit the offense intended; and it shall be immaterial whether, under the circumstances, he would have actually accomplished his purpose.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 855 So. 2d 408 - State v. Jones · 854 So. 2d 945 - State v. Pierre

3. “[s]econd degree murder is the killing of a human being: (1)[w]hen the offender has a specific intent to kill or to inflict great bodily harm.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 855 So. 2d 408 - State v. Jones · 949 So. 2d 464 - State v. Stringer