State v. Bonner’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2018
3 federal appellate · 21 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 Marks v. United States · Bouie v. City of Columbia · 38 Cal. 3d 301 - People v. Castro · People v. Washington · 15 Cal. 3d 79 - People v. Antick
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.
“consistent with the prevailing rule in the overwhelming majority of states in this country — that “for a defendant to be held guilty of murder, it is necessary that the act of killing be that of the defendant, and for the act to be his, it is necessary that it be committed by him or by someone acting in concert with him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“beyond its common law limitation to acts by the felon and his accomplice ... is an appropriate action for the legislature ... not the courts”). . It has been argued that the rule”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Fox“any death proximately resulting from the unlawful activitynotwithstanding the fact that the killing was by one resisting the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Myers
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.