State v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2013
1 district · 20 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 State v. Hill · State v. Foust · State v. Weaver · State v. Redfern · State v. Wrenn
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the State proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the killing was caused either by an unlawful act not amounting to a felony or by culpably negligent conduct, it has proven that the killing was unlawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The single essential element common to all four degrees of homicide is that there be an unlawful killing of a human being.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“but are two methods of proving the essential element that the killing was unlawful.”
1 later decision 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.