State v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably State v. Barfield (1979), State v. Irick (1977)
98 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 Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Lutwak v. United States · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · Smith v. Crouse · Keeble v. United States
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) that the defendant counseled, procured, commanded, encouraged, or aided another to commit the offense; (2) the defendant was not present when the crime was committed; and (3) the principal committed the crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Graham · State v. Sams“that before they could convict defendant they must find that her request and demands that Epley murder Benton caused him to commit the crime. . . . [T]he jurors were instructed that for the State to prove that defendant procured Epley to murder Benton it must first show that he had sufficient mental capacity to understand and carry out defendant’s commands; that, lacking such capacity, he could not have killed Benton as the result of defendant’s procurement, and she would not be guilty. Inter alia, the judge also told the jury that to be guilty as an accessory before the fact to murder “a defendant must (have) incited, procured or encouraged the commission of the crime so as to participate therein by some words or acts,” and must have given instructions, directions or counsel which were “substantially followed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis“charged that the jury must find the defendant not guilty unless they found that “before the killing was committed the defendant . . . pointed out the Potts residence and store to Billy Devine and told Billy Devine . . . that he would have to rob Mr. Potts when he was at home, and that defendant was to get part of the money, and that in so doing the defendant, Harry Hunter, counseled or procured, or commanded or knowingly aided Billy Devine to attempt to commit armed robbery. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis
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.