State v. Cameron’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In order to establish felony murder, the State must prove two causation elements. First, the death must lie within the res gestae of the underlying crime, which is defined in this context as acts committed before, during, or after the happening of the principal occurrence, when those acts are so closely connected with the principal occurrence as to form, in reality, a part of the occurrence. Second, the felony and the homicide must have a direct causal connection, which exists unless an extraordinary intervening event supersedes the defendant’s act and becomes the sole legal cause of death.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Nesbitt · State v. Ervin

2. “firmly convinced that the jury would have reached a different verdict if the instruction had been given.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Clark · State v. Pfannenstiel

3. “unconstitutionally shifted the burden to him to prove that he was not guilty”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Valdez