950 So. 2d 727 - State v. Godbolt’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Specific criminal intent is that state of mind which exists when the circumstances indicate that the offender actively desired the prescribed criminal consequences to follow his act or failure to act. The fact that a defendant was in an intoxicated condition at the time of the commission of the crime is usually not a defense. However, where the circumstances indicate that the defendant voluntarily became intoxicated or drugged and that his intoxicated condition precluded the presence of a specific criminal intent required in a particular crime, this fact constitutes a defense to a prosecution for that crime. Voluntary intoxication is a defense to the charge of simple burglary only if the circumstances indicate that it has precluded the 17presence of specific criminal intent. The specific legal question is not whether the requisite specific intent was formed but, rather, whether at the time the unauthorized entry occurred the defendant was so intoxicated as to preclude the existence of any criminal — any specific intent on his part to commit a theft or felony therein.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 105 So. 3d 246 - State v. Jones · 63 So. 3d 399 - State v. Bias

2. “[n]o application for postconviction relief, including applications which seek an out-of-time appeal, shall be considered if it is filed more than two years after the judgment of conviction and sentence has become final under the provisions of [LSA-C.Cr.P. arts.] 914 or 922. . . .”

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