State v. Jefimowicz’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably State v. Vasquez (1992), State v. Haliski (1995)
35 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 State v. Roth · State v. Jarbath · State v. Dunbar · State v. Fair · State v. Weeks
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now, what would make Morris Jackmon an accomplice? A person is an accomplice of another person in the commission of a crime when, with the purpose of promoting or facilitating the commission of the crime, he does one of several things. He either solicits the other person to commit the crime, and/or aids, agrees or attempts to aid such other person in planning or committing the crime. Therefore, the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that, one, Lance Phillips or Leonard Paulk, Jr. committed the crimes of murder of Jamal Scott, attempted murder of Lizabeth Rivas and/or attempted murder of Johanna Rivera, Carmen Rivera; and, two, that Morris Jackmon acted purposely to promote it; that is, to bring it into being, to advance it, to launch it or facilitate; that is, to make it easier to accomplish the crime of murder and/or attempted murder. There’s that word “purpose” again. One acts purposely if he does what he means to do; when it’s his conscious object to engage in conduct of that nature and to cause such a result. And the third element the State has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt is that the — Morris Jackmon either solicited Lance Phillips or Leonard Paulk, Jr. to commit the crime of [sic] Jamal Scott, attempted murder of Lizabeth Rivera Rivas or attempted murder of Johanna Rivera and Carmen Rivera. To solicit means to strongly urge, suggest, entice, lure, proposition or aid. Aided the efforts of another meaning assisted, supported or supplemented the efforts of th”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jackmon“knowingly under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to ... human life”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is nothing discretionary about this determination”
1 later decision 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.