State v. Madsen’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably State v. Gretzler (1983), State v. Clark (1980)
8 federal appellate · 51 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 Santoni v. United States · Steele v. United States No. 1 · Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation · Federal Trade Commission v. Textile & Apparel Group · State v. Richmond
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he receipt of the [insurance] money must be a cause of the murder, not a result of the murder.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Ryan · State v. Chew“"The defendant committed the offense as consideration for the receipt, or in expectation of the receipt, of anything of pecuniary value."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gretzler · State v. Clark“1. The defendant's capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law was significantly impaired, but not so impaired as to constitute a defense to prosecution. 2. The defendant was under unusual and substantial duress, although not such as to constitute a defense to prosecution. 3. The defendant was legally accountable for the conduct of another ..., but his participation was relatively minor, although not so minor as to constitute a defense to prosecution. 4. The defendant could not reasonably have foreseen that his conduct in the course of the commission of the offense for which the defendant was convicted would cause, or would create a grave risk of causing, death to another person. 5. The defendant's age.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Ryan
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.