State v. Clifton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 12 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “could sufficiently support an objective inference that Clifton possessed the requisite criminal intent to harm one or both of [the victims].”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Rose · United States v. Weems

2. ““[I]t is our opinion that an individual armed as defendant was with operable guns and an arsenal of ammunition can be characterized as having the present ability to inflict injury with a dangerous weapon. [The second police officer] observed defendant fire several shots, some of which hit their presumed targets. [He] reasonably believed that defendant possessed a weapon which could inflict injury on him as well. But for the restraint of an armed officer, defendant could well have reloaded his weapon from the supply he carried. Under these circumstances, the trial justice was clearly correct in denying defendant’s motion for judgment of acquittal.” Id. at 9 .”

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