State v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 46 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[A]ccomplice” means a person ... who with the intent to promote or facilitate the commission of an offense: 1. Solicits or commands another person to commit the offense; or 2. Aids, counsels, agrees to aid or attempts to aid another person in planning or committing the offense[;] 3. Provides means or opportunity to another person to commit the offense.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Garnica · State v. Ellison

2. “A. A person commits first degree murder if: 2. Acting either alone or with one or more other persons the person commits or attempts to commit [certain enumerated felonies] and in the course of and in furtherance of the offense or immediate flight from the offense, the person or another person causes the death of any person. B. Homicide, as prescribed in subsection A, paragraph 2 of this section, requires no specific mental state other than what is required for the commission of any of the enumerated felonies.”

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

3. “[W]e hold that section 13-303(A)(3) imposes criminal accountability on an accomplice defendant only for those offenses the defendant intended to aid or aided another in planning or committing. In this case, if [defendant] did not intend to aid [the principal] in committing murder, he could not be an accomplice to murder under the terms of the statute.”

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