Walker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 10 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We have previously concluded that a trial court’s failure to define the term ‘recklessly’ was not plain error in Williams v. State, 648 P.2d 603 , 608 (Alaska App.1982). We said: ‘The meaning of “recklessly” is well within the comprehension of the average juror and the code definition appears to be a common sense definition of the term. We do not find that the failure to define the term “recklessly” constituted plain error [Footnotes omitted.] We see no reason to depart from that holding. We find no error.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Walker v. Endell

2. “A person may not be convicted of an offense other than a class 1 felony, based upon conduct in which he engaged because of the use or the threatened use of unlawful force upon him or upon another person, which force or threatened use thereof a reasonable person in his situation would have been unable to resist. This defense is not available when a person intentionally or recklessly places himself in a situation in which it is foreseeable that he will be subject to such force or threatened use thereof.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 101 Md. App. 408 - Williams v. State

3. “the United States Supreme Court wished to give state legislatures considerable leeway in defining defenses to crimes”

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