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8 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 38 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Commonwealth v. O'Hanlon.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Commonwealth v. O'Hanlon Anchor | green | “aggravated assault is, indeed, the functional equivalent of a murder in which, for some reason, death fails to occur.” | 9 |
| 2 | Commonwealth v. O'Hanlon | green | “requires a higher degree of culpability, i.e., that which considers and then disregards the threat necessarily posed to human life by the offending conduct,” | 6 |
| 3 | Commonwealth v. Comer | green | “considered, then disregarded, the threat to the life of the victim.” | 5 |
| 4 | Commonwealth v. Kling | green | “there is no distinction between the malice essential to third degree murder and that necessary for aggravated assault.” | 5 |
| 5 | Commonwealth v. Malone | green | “intentional doing of an uncalled-for act in callous disregard of its likely harmful effects on others.” | 4 |
| 6 | Commonwealth v. Comer | green | “the defendant could reasonably anticipate that serious bodily injury or death would be the likely and logical consequence of his actions ... but the consequence was ignored.” | 3 |
| 7 | Commonwealth v. Young | green | “bjetween the recklessness or culpable negligence necessary to support the charge of involuntary manslaughter, and the specific intent to kill which is a prerequisite of murder of the first degree, there is a class of wanton and reckless conduct which manifests such an extreme in…” | 3 |
| 8 | Cotonuts v. United States | green | “the time it takes for the concentration in the blood to decrease by half.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.