State v. Branson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2018
15 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 Barrett v. United States · People v. Washington · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Smith v. Myers · State v. Rust · Commonwealth v. Balliro
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.
“[t]he 'felony murder rule' allows one whose conduct brought about an unintended death in the commission of a felony to be found guilty of murder by imputing malice when there is no specific intent to kill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hall“With the exception of involuntary manslaughter ..., it is the only form of homicide not requiring proof of a specific mental element.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hall“isolate for special treatment those felonies that involve some special danger to human life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Anderson
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.