State v. Mower’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1991
15 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 Davis v. Alaska · People v. Huntley · Willard Dairy Corp. v. National Dairy Products Corp. · American Tobacco Co. v. Green · United States v. Garguilo
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ . . . aided, abetted, assisted, advised or encouraged . . . [the third person] in ... [it] ... or [were] present for such purpose to the knowledge of the perpetrator.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whoever aids in the commission of a felony, or is accessory thereto before the fact, by counseling, hiring or otherwise procuring the same shall be punished in the manner prescribed for the punishment of the principal felon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams““To be found guilty as a principal . . . an accused must have either been the perpetrator of the crime himself or, while being actually or constructively present, aided and abetted its commission” ;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Walsh
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.