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← 497 So. 2d 947 - Willis v. State

497 So. 2d 947 - Willis v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
July 1998
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 407 So. 2d 639 - GC v. State · 436 So. 2d 196 - Francis v. State · Turner 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If the defendant helped another person or persons commit a crime, the defendant is a principal and must be treated as if she had done all the things the other person did if: (1) the defendant had a conscious intent that the criminal act be done and (2) the defendant did some act or said some word which was intended to and which did incite, cause, encourage, assist or advise the other person ... to actually commit the crime.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “`jury should never have been given the case because appellant's motions for directed verdict should have been granted.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “it must be shown not only that he assisted the actual perpetrator but that he intended to participate in the crime.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.