Eddy v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably United States v. Schieman (1990), Wright v. State (1997)
3 federal appellate · 42 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 Davis v. State · Drollinger v. State · Candler v. State · Averhart v. State · Akins 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This Court has long declined to define the phrase, 'while committing, in terms of the chronological completion of the statutory elements of the underlying felony. To require that the murder occur before each of the statutory elements of the robbery have been completed would elevate form over substance. The felony murder statute must be construed, in light of its purpose:...." Id. at 28 .”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mahone v. Clark · Hoover v. State“... knowingly or intentionally takes property from another person or from the presence of another person by using or threatening the use of force on any person or by putting any , person in fear.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sheckles v. State · Wright v. State“[a] person who ... kills another human being while committing or attempting to commit ... robbery commits murder, a felony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hoover v. State · Sheckles v. State
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.