State v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2017
16 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 70 Cal. 2d 522 - People v. Ireland · Smith v. North Carolina · State v. Brown · State v. Pinch · State v. Thompson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant argues that the 'merger doctrine' prohibits the application of the felony-murder rule whenever the predicate felony directly results in or is an integral element of the homicide.... In State v. Wall , we were asked to adopt the 'merger doctrine' but declined to do so.... The defendant has presented no argument to warrant a change in our position.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to bar application of the felony murder rule to homicides committed in the perpetration of the felony of discharging a firearm into occupied property. We have rejected this application of the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clark
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.