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← 128 NH 577 - State v. Kilgus

State v. Kilgus’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

43
cited by 43 later decisions
11
states following
March 2019
most recently cited

1 district · 40 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Group (2002), State v. Smart (1993)

1 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 11 states

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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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Katz v. United States · Michigan v. Long · Massiah v. United States · Kirby v. Illinois

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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “money, identified the intended victim and instructed that the body had to be found outside New Hampshire. As the court properly held, these acts went beyond”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]his was more than ... `mere' or `naked' solicitation. It was a `substantial step' toward the commission of capital murder.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “whether the defendant's actions constituted solicitation was not important so long as his actions also constituted an attempt”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.