State v. Anthony’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

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

1. “sufficient for the commission of the offense” and "aids, counsels, agrees to aid or attempts to aid another person in planning or engaging in the conduct causing such result.” 2 . The court in Anthony noted that after the decision in Etzweiler , the New Hampshire accomplice liability statute was amended to provide that with respect to a crime that requires causing a particular result, "it shall not be necessary that the accomplice act with a purpose to promote or facilitate the offense,” but instead that a defendant may be found liable as an accomplice "in the conduct causing such result.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Nelson

2. “could [not] intentionally aid [the principal] in a crime that [the principal] was unaware that he was committing”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. DESAI (DIPAK) VS. STATE

3. “sufficient for the commission of the offense” and”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Nelson