State v. Ayers’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2015
5 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. Marti · Kelly v. Sinclair Oil Corp. · State v. Conner · State v. McFadden · Iowa Electric Light & Power Co. v. General Electric Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One is deemed guilty of culpable homicide only if the act causing death is either actually or constructively his; death must have resulted from an act committed by the accused or by someone acting in concert with him, or acting in furtherance of a common object of purpose, as distinguished from someone acting independently or in opposition to him.... Where the criminal liability arises from the act of another, it must appear that the act was done in furtherance of the common design, or in prosecution of the common purpose for which the parties were assembled or combined together....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Travis“A person commits a class “D” felony when one person unintentionally causes the death of another person by the commission of a public offense other than a forcible felony or escape.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Travis
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.