State v. Conner’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Commonwealth v. Dickerson (1977), 103 Wis. 2d 228 - State v. Dean (1981)
5 federal appellate · 86 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Washington v. Texas · Lego v. Twomey · Fisher v. United States · Cupp v. Naughten
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"All murder which is perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, or any other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which is committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, mayhem, or burglary, is murder in the first degree, * * *."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Conner v. Auger · State v. Veverka“if it results as an incident to the felony and is associated with the felony as one of its hazards. It is not necessary for application of the doctrine that the murder be contemporaneous with the felony.... A lapse of time and distance are factors to be considered but are not determinative.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Phams · State v. Aldape“could be convicted only if Maureen's [Connolly] death occurred incident to the robbery of Michael 'rather than arising from the formation of a separate and specific intent unrelated to the crime of robbery.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.