State v. Workes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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. ““It is true that a culpable mental state must be found for all offenses for which the defendant is to be held liable ... But we think it too broadly states the proposition to require the evidence to establish a defendant’s specific knowledge of which particular crime his co-participant will commit. The courts have held that culpable mental state may be inferred from the circumstances ... That is simply a way of expressing the concept that if a defendant has embarked upon a course of criminal conduct with others, he is responsible for those crimes which he could reasonably anticipate would be part of that conduct.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Willyard · State v. Smith

2. “Here the victim was placed into the truck through force and threat of violence. She was removed from the truck and taken into the park in the same way. That force served to prevent her resis-tence to the taking of the money. That force or threat of force continued while she was at the park. Defendant was aware of this. Without the force neither co-defendant would have had the opportunity to steal the money. Under the circumstances here the stealing of the money constituted robbery as it occurred while the victim was under the threat of force, and that force made her unaware of the theft. We similarly reject defendant’s contention that the evidence was insufficient because it did not establish an intention to rob at the time force was first exercised — when the victim was abducted. The force continued from the beginning to the end of the episode and the formation of the intent to steal occurred during the continuation of that force and in reliance on that force. The state made a submissible case of robbery in the second degree.”

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

3. “1. A person is criminally responsible for the conduct of another when [[Image here]] (2) Either before or during the commission of an offense with the purpose of promoting the commission of an offense, he aids or agrees to aid or attempts to aid such other person in planning, committing or attempting to commit the offense. [[Image here]]”

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