State v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2011
7 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 State v. Childers · 51 Cal. 2d 682 - People v. Matlock · State v. Seelke · State v. Shultz · State v. Jensen
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he statute does not contemplate active participation by one in the overt act directly causing death. It contemplates some participation in the events leading up to the commission of the final overt act, such as furnishing the means for bringing about death, the gun, the knife, the poison, or providing the water, for the use of the person who himself commits the act of self-murder. But where a person actually performs, or actively assists in performing, the overt act resulting in death, such as shooting or stabbing the victim, ... his act constitutes murder[.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Goulding · State v. Sexson“intentionally advising, encouraging or assisting another in the taking of his own life”); Sexson, 117 N.M. at 115 , 869 P.2d at 303 (interpreting”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Goulding
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.