State v. Joyner’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 175 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Barnes (1997), State v. Barts (1986)
1 federal appellate · 175 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 Pope v. Nebraska · State v. Westbrook · State v. Joyner · Canty v. Board of Education · Williams v. North Carolina
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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To act in concert means to act together, in harmony or in conjunction one with another pursuant to a common plan or purpose.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage“Under the theory of acting in concert, if two or more persons join in a purpose to commit a crime, each person is responsible for all unlawful acts committed by the other persons as long as those acts are committed in furtherance of the crime's common purpose.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“For a person to be guilty of a crime it is not necessary that he himself do all of the acts necessary to constitute the crime. If two or more persons act together for a common purpose to commit the crime of murder or voluntary manslaughter or involuntary manslaughter, then each of them is held responsible under the law for the acts of the others done in the commission of the crime of murder or voluntary manslaughter or involuntary manslaughter.”
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.