State v. Burkhart’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2024
14 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 Morissette v. United States · Sandstrom v. Montana · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · 34 Cal. 3d 441 - People v. Dillon · 111 S. Ct. 425 - Insurance Co. of Pennsylvania v. Ben Cooper, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he purpose of the felony-murder rule is to ensure that people who engage in dangerous acts likely to result in death are held responsible for any resulting deaths, whether or not the acts were planned or premeditated. The felony-murder rule creates an alternate means of holding one responsible for reckless actions likely to result in death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Main“purpose and knowledge to commit felony-murder was presumed when he assaulted [the victim] . . . , causing [the victim's] death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the intent to commit the felony supplies the intent for all the consequences, including homicide, arising therefrom.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.