People v. Roe’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably State v. Williams (2007), Commonwealth v. Santos (2005)
10 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ T]he focus of the offense is not upon the subjective intent of the defendant, as it is with intentional murder, but rather upon an objective assessment of the degree of risk presented by defendant’s reckless conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“subjective awareness of the risk an element essential to establish the underlying mens rea of recklessness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Williams
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.