246 So. 2d 566 - State v. Roby’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably State v. Dent (1975), Connolly, Jr. v. State (2015)
41 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 90 So. 2d 629 - Davis v. State · Osslo v. California · Pope v. State · Naim v. Naim · Jimenez 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under our statute, therefore, a person is a principal in the first degree whether he actually commits the crime or merely aids, abets or procures its commission, and it is immaterial whether the indictment or information alleges that the defendant committed the crime or was merely aiding or abetting in its commission, so long as the proof establishes that he was guilty of one of the acts denounced by the statute.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dent · Hodge 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.