Small v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2012
11 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 Harris v. State · Fox v. State · Tessely v. State · Moredock v. State · Goodlow 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By the laws of this State, a person who knowingly or intentionally aids another person in committing an offense is guilty of that offense as though he were the principal. A defendant is responsible for the acts of his confederates as well as his own. The Court instructs you, however, that the defendant can be held responsible on this theory only for acts done before or during the commission of the offense charged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Grundy v. State · Brooks 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.