State v. Axley’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably State v. Fisher (1984), State v. Anderson (2005)
118 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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Ariz.Rev.Stat. § ] 13-1105 provides that the crime of first degree murder can be committed in either of two ways. First, an individual commits first degree murder if he causes the death of another with premeditation, intending or knowing that his conduct will cause death. Second, under the doctrine of felony-murder, a person commits first degree murder if “(a)cting either alone or with one or more other persons such person commits or attempts to commit ... robbery ... and in the course of and in furtherance of such offense or immediate flight from such offense, such person or another person causes the death of any person.” [Ariz.Rev.Stat. §] 13-1105(A)(2). Although the first count of the indictment set forth the two bases delineated in [Ariz.Rev. Stat. § ] 13-1105 for classifying appellant's actions as first degree murder, it charged him with only one crime. Thus, the indictment was not duplicitous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jones“On motion of a defendant or on its own initiative, the court shall enter a judgment of acquittal of one or more offenses charged in an indictment, information or complaint after the evidence on either side is closed, if there is no substantial evidence to warrant a conviction. The court’s decision on a defendant’s motion shall not be reserved, but shall be made with all possible speed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams“Instructions must be predicated on some theory of the case which may be found in the evidence, and, when not so predicated, they should not be given as their tendency would be to mislead the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reffitt
How this case has been treated — in progress
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