State v. Hubbard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 34 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In the instance of statutory rape it is no defense that the defendant actually believed the female to be in excess of the prohibited age. Regina v. Prince, 13 Cox Crim.Cas. 138 (1875), early on settled the validity of statutory rape legislation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 937 So. 2d 818 - Feliciano v. State

2. “the notion that the State would have to prove the additional element of negligence appears to be an alien concept in this species of unintended crime”); Lawrence Taylor, Drunk Driving Defense 7 (1991)(”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Samuels

3. “[T]he fact that someone is intoxicated and drives a particular vehicle which causes another person's death should be enough to satisfy the elements of DUI manslaughter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 816 So. 2d 697 - Klinger v. State