State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[c]riminal violence that erupts during a drug sale is not an extraordinary intervening event. Such violence, when deadly, cannot supersede a defendant's criminal participation in the sale and will not cut off his or her criminal liability for felony murder.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Pearce

2. “[T]he causal relation is also satisfied because it is foreseeable that violence will erupt during an aggravated robbery in which the robber carries a gun. The very nature of an aggravated robbery is violent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Pearce

3. “'[U]nlawful conduct which is broken by an independent intervening cause cannot be the proximate cause of the death of another for the purpose of a conviction for homicide.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Frantz