People v. DeHerrera’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

27 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A person acts “knowingly” with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense when he is aware that his conduct is of such a nature or that such circumstance exists. A person acts “knowingly” with respect to a result of his conduct when he is aware that his conduct is practically certain to cause the result.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Yazzie · People v. Oram

2. ““A person acts ‘intentionally’ with respect to a result or to conduct described by a statute defining an offense, when his conscious objective is to cause that result or to engage in that conduct or when his actions are such as to give rise to a substantial certainty that such results will be produced.” (emphasis supplied)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Quintana · Espinoza v. People

3. “[a] person commits criminal “attempt,” if, acting with the kind of culpability otherwise for the commission of an offense, [he or she] engages in any conduct, whether act, omission, ,or possession, which is strongly .corroborative of the firmness, of the actor’s purpose to complete the commission of the offense. Factual or legal impossibility, of committing the offense is not a defense if the offense could have been committed had the attendant circumstances been as the actor believed them to be, nor is it a defense that the crime attempted was actually perpetrated by the accused.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. People v. Lopez