Cox v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 14 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When the definition of a crime consists of only the description of a particular act, without reference to intent to do a further act or achieve a future consequence the fact that the defendant intended to do the proscribed act makes that crime a general criminal intent offense. When the definition refers to defendant's intent to do some further act or achieve some additional consequence, the crime is deemed to be one of specific intent.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kite v. State · Mathewson v. State

2. “(a) A person is guilty of aggravated assault and battery if he: [[Image here]] (iii) Threatens to use a drawn deadly weapon on another unless reasonably necessary in defense of his person, property or abode or to prevent serious bodily injury to another * * *.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Mozee · Streitmatter v. State

3. “(als a general intent crime, aggravated assault requires only that intent which may be inferred from doing the act which constitutes the offense charged; i.e. slashing back and forth with the hunting knife.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Streitmatter v. State · Derek Earl Hill v. State