State v. Stallman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Missouri follows the foreseeability-proximate cause theory of felony murder in interpreting whether a death resulted from the perpetration of a felony. O’Neal [v. State], 236 S.W.3d [91,] 96 [ (Mo.App. E.D.2007) ]. Under that theory, the identity of the actual killer is irrelevant and a defendant may be considered responsible for any deaths that are the natural and proximate result of the commission of a felony.”

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

2. “unlawful act need not be the immediate cause of death. It is enough that it be a contributing proximate cause, although other contributing causes may have intervened.”

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

3. “Missouri follows the foreseeability-proximate cause theory of felony murder in interpreting whether a death resulted from the perpetration of a felony.”

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