State v. Joplin’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2013
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. Odom · State v. Smith · McDougall v. North Carolina · Patterson v. Medberry · State v. Williams
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]or 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 with a common purpose to commit robbery with a firearm, each of them is held responsible for the acts of the others done in the commission of robbery with a firearm. So I charge you that if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about February 8, 1991, the defendant, Herbert Barton, Jr., acting either by himself or acting together with Heath Barton and Michael Emanuel, had in their possession a firearm and took and carried away property from the person or presence of a person without his voluntary consent by endangering or threatening his life with use or threatened use of a firearm, the defendant knowing that he was not entitled to take the property and intending to deprive him of its use permanently, then it would be your duty to return a verdict of guilty of robbery with a firearm. However, if you do not so find or have a reasonable doubt as to one or more of these things, it would be your duty to return a verdict of not guilty in case 91 CRS 3025.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barton“Inasmuch as the jury found defendant guilty of first degree murder and the trial court instructed on accident as a theory of acquittal, we are not convinced the result of this trial would have been different had the trial court repeated the theory of acquittal by accident in his first mandate. This omission, even if error (a point we do not decide), is obviously not plain error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. White
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.