State v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Fisher and Utley v. State (2001), State v. Leake (2005)
45 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. Leinweber · State v. Wahlberg · State v. Moore · State v. Back · Scruggs 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“without intent to effect the death of any person”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Anderson · State v. Hall“proof of the elements of one offense negates a necessary element of another offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hall · State v. Stay“[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
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.