State v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Owens v. State (2007), Nay v. State (2007)
45 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. Williams · 28 Md. App. 640 - Evans v. State · State v. Evans · 45 Cal. 3d 984 - People v. Ainsworth · United States v. Bolden
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is a statute meaning an enactment of the legislature which says that if you cause or if a murder is caused by your involvement in the commission of any of a list of felonies then that is first degree murder regardless of what your intention was, regardless of whether you were the individual whose act caused the death, period. Regardless of what you intended other than in connection with the commission of that felony. Suffice it to say for our purposes in this case robbery is one of the felonies on that list. To convict the defendant of first degree felony-murder in this case, the State must prove that the defendant committed robbery, that his project involv[ing] the robbery [sic] resulted in the killing of John Butler, it is abbreviated here but the principle applies regardless of how many people are involved, and lastly that the act resulted in death. That is what I was talking about a second ago occurred during the commission of that robbery. As I said also felony-murder does not require the State to prove that the defendant intended the victim’s death. On[ly] that it resulted from the robbery project. Okay. Let's talk about robbery, ... Robbery is the taking of personal property from another person or from his presence and his control by force or the threat of force, with intent to steal the property. The elements are pretty simple and straightforward. To convict someone of robbery the Government must prove that the defendant in this case took the car and keys from [”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Allen“to deter dangerous conduct by punishing as a first degree murder a homicide resulting from dangerous conduct in the perpetration of a felony, even if the defendant did not intend to kill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'intent to commit the underlying felony at the time of the killing,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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