State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Now, I defined intent [on Friday], I will do it today because it has-it has to be present in your mind and understanding. I want it fresh.... "A person acts intentionally with respect to-to a result or to conduct described by the statute defining an offense when his conscious objective is to cause such a result or to engage in such conduct. Intentional conduct is purposeful conduct rather than conduct that is accidental or inadvertent.... "[A] person's intention may be inferred from his conduct. You may infer from the fact that an accused engaged in conduct that he intended to engage in that conduct. An intent to cause death may be inferred from circumstantial evidence, such as the type of weapon used, the manner in which it is used, the type of wounds inflicted, the events leading to it, immediately following the death.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 181 Conn. App. 167 - Cator v. Commissioner of Correction