State v. Kimball’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A person is an accomplice of another person in the commission of a crime if: A. With the intent of promoting or facilitating the commission of the crime, he solicits such other person to commit the crime, or aids or agrees to aid or attempts to aid such other person in planning or committing the crime. A person is an accomplice under this subsection to any crime the commission of which was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of his conduct....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bleyl · State v. Johnson

2. “This critical difference relates to the nature of the homicide required to be “a reasonably foreseeable consequence.” The guilt of defendant A of Section 202 “Felony murder” can arise because a person’s death is caused by the actions of defendant B alone, even though the circumstances are not such that defendant B’s conduct in causing the death becomes “Murder”, in violation of Section 201. In contrast, defendant A’s guilt of Section 201 “Murder,” by reason of “accomplice” accountability under Section 57(1) in combination with the second sentence of Section 57(3)(A), can arise only if, as an indispensible element, the commission by defendant B of the crime of Section 201 “Murder” was “a reasonably foreseeable consequence of ... [the] conduct” of defendant A described in the first sentence of Section 57(3)(A).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Linscott

3. “[T]he constitutional protection afforded defendant * * * by the Confrontation Clause * * * is the guarantee of opportunity for cross-examination, to expose the possible unreliability of evidence. Since, however, the traditional common law rationale for receiving the extra-judicial admission of a party in evidence against him is that a party “cannot object to his failure to have a chance to cross-examine himself,” i.e., to confront himself, * * * there is no reasonable basis for applicability of the Confrontation Clause as to a party’s admissions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Goodridge