State v. Douglass’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1971
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Clem v. State · White v. People · State v. Cox · Allen v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [N]or have we any statute making the consenting to even the commission of a crime an offense, unless the consent amounts to the counseling, aiding, or abetting in the commission of such crime. Hence, where a thing is not an offense at all, a party cannot be guilty of committing an offense by merely consenting thereto; and even where the thing is an offense, a party can be guilty of committing an offense by consenting thereto only where his consent is of that affirmative and expressed character which amounts to a counseling, aiding, or abetting in the commission of the offense. ‘He must do or say something showing consent to the felonious purpose, and must contribute to its execution.’ (1 Am. & Eng. Encyc. of Law, 63, 64.) “. . . And that mental consent to a crime, where no expressed consent is given by any word or act, does not make the person consenting guilty of an offense, see the following authorities: Clem v. The State, 33 Ind. 418 ; The State v. Cox, 65 Mo. 29 ; White v. The People, 81 Ill. 333 ; The State v. Hildreth, 9 Ired. Law, 440 ; same case, 51 Am. Dec. 369 ; 1 Whar. Cr. Law, §§ 211, 211a, 211d. . . . “In the case of The State v. Cox, ante, it was held that ‘The mere mental approval by a bystander of a murder committed in his presence, does not make an accomplice in the murder.’ . . .” (pp. 625, 626.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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