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← 946 P2D 875 - State v. Hazelwood

State v. Hazelwood’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
3
states following
January 2021
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2021

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions

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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.

Relationships

Applies 33 U.S.C. § 1321

Relies on Morissette v. United States · Bell v. United States · Lambert v. People of the State of California · One 1958 Plymouth Sedan v. Pennsylvania · United States v. Balint

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

  1. “[t]here is wide latitude in the lawmakers to declare an offense and to exclude elements of knowledge and diligence from its definition.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Jordan v. State · Jordan and Letendre v. State
  2. “An exception to the mens rea requirement for 'clear legislative intent to the contrary' has the potential to swallow the rule. As we said in Speidel , even where a statute is explicit, due process will on occasion require a higher degree of culpability.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Jordan v. State
  3. “[was] constitutionally permissible because it approximates what the due process guarantee aims at: an assurance that criminal penalties will be imposed only when the conduct at issue is something society can reasonably expect to deter”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Jordan v. State

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.