State v. Weeks’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez (2007), State v. Cofield (1992)
113 state decisions
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
Relies on McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Costello v. United States · State v. Crisantos (Arriagas) · State v. Mathis · State v. White
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are poor candidates for rehabilitation under the harmless error theory.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a. A person is guilty of an offense if it is committed ... by the conduct of another person for which he is legally accountable.... b. A person is legally accountable for the conduct of another person when: .... (3) He is an accomplice of such other person in the commission of an offense ; .... c. A person is an accomplice of another person in the commission of an offense if: (1) With the purpose of promoting or facilitating the commission of the offense; he (a) Solicits such other person to commit it; (b) Aids or agrees or attempts to aid such other person in planning or committing it ; or (c) Having a legal duty to prevent the commission of the offense, fails to make proper effort so to do.... [ N.J.S.A. 2C:2-6 (emphasis added).]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“By definition an accomplice must be a person who acts with the purpose of promoting or facilitating the commission of the substantive offense for which he is charged as an accomplice.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.