Britt v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““‘[f]irst, the record must clearly present the incident alleged to be error. Second, appellant must demonstrate that a clear and unequivocal rule of law was violated in a clear and obvious, not merely arguable, way. Last, appellant must prove that he was denied a substantial right resulting in material prejudice against him. Brown v. State, Wyo., 736 P.2d 1110, 1115 (1987).’ ””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pierson v. State · Tennant v. State

2. ““The constitutional standard for vagueness of a criminal statute has been defined by this court. ‘An ordinance or statute is void for vagueness if it fails to give a person of ordinary sensibility fair notice that the contemplated conduct is forbidden.’ Keser v. State, Wyo., 706 P.2d 263, 266 (1985), quoted in Shunn v. State, Wyo., 742 P.2d 775, 777 (1987). While there is a strong presumption of constitutionality, ‘[a] statute is unconstitutionally vague when “men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application.” ’ Jenkins v. Werger, 564 F.Supp. 806 (D.Wyo., 1983), quoted in Shunn v. State, supra. ‘ “The underlying principle is that no man shall be held criminally liable for conduct which he could not reasonably understand to be proscribed.” ’ Keser v. State, supra, at 265-266 (quoting United States v. Harriss, 347 U.S. 612 , 74 S.Ct. 808, 812 , 98 L.Ed. 989 (1954)).” (Citation omitted.)”

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

3. “When the statute sets out the offense with only a description of the particular unlawful act, without reference to intent to do a further act or achieve a future consequence, the trial judge asks the jury whether the defendant intended to do the outlawed act. Such intention is general intent. When the statutory definition of the crime refers to an intent to do some further act or attain some additional consequence, the offense is considered to be a specific intent crime and then that question must be asked of the jury.”

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