State v. Bissonette’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably State v. Coleman (1992), State v. Bubar (1985)
47 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 Simmons v. United States · Manson v. Brathwaite · Amperex Electronic Corp. v. New York Racing Assn., Inc. · United States v. Ash · Coloma Community School District v. Berry
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Barr-Orlandi test, as discussed in State v. Sears, 130 Vt. 379 , 296 A.2d 218 (1972), does not require that all factual eventualities of the crime be planned, merely that a “preconceived plan” existed. In Sears , this Court held that “presence of a preconceived plan with a common criminal objective, plus participation in its accomplishment to some substantial measure, is enough to support an information charging such a participant as a principal.” Id. at 382 , 296 A.2d at 220 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bevins
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.