State v. Gowin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “A general criminal intent requirement is satisfied if it is shown that the defendant knowingly performed the proscribed acts, State v. Booton, 85 Idaho 51 , 375 P.2d 536 (1962), but a specific intent requirement refers to that state of mind which in part defines the crime and is an element thereof. Lafave & Scott, Criminal Law, § 28, p. 196.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Doe v. Durtschi · State v. McDougall

2. “is not defined in our criminal code, but this Court has recognized that the term denotes a specific criminal intent requirement. No word denoting a state of mind appears in the statutory rape statute that would invoke a specific criminal requirement as the word”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Doe v. Durtschi · State v. Stiffler

3. “Every clerk, agent or servant of any person who fraudulently appropriates to his own use, or secretes with a fraudulent intent to appropriate to his own use, any property of another which has come into his control or care by virtue of his employment as such clerk, agent, or servant, is guilty of embezzlement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Melene James v. City of Boise