Breaz v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 1986 · most notably Ortiz v. State (1976), Fox v. State (1986)
27 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 Johnson v. State
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““9-102 Accessory before the fact.—Every person who shall aid or abet in the commission of a felony, or who shall counsel, encourage, hire, command, or otherwise procure a felony to be committed, may be charged by indictment, or affidavit, tried and convicted in the same manner as if he were a principal, either before or after the principal offender is charged, indicted or convicted; and, upon such conviction he shall suffer the same punishment and penalties as are prescribed by law for the punishment of the principal. (acts 1905, ch. 169, Sec. 244, P. 584.)””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Grecco v. State · Hoy v. State““ ‘There can be no doubt of the general rule of law, that a person engaged in the commission of ¡an unlawful act is legally responsible for all the consequences which may naturally or necessarily flow from it, and that, if he combines and confederates with others to accomplish an illegal purpose, he is liable eriminaliter for everything done by his confederates which follows incidentally in the execution of the common design, as one of its probable and natural consequences, even though it was not intended as a part of the original design or common plan . . .’ 1 R. C. L. §5, p. 133.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Grecco v. State · Fox v. State
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.