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State v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

46
cited by 46 later decisions
3
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “without intent to effect the death of any person”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “proof of the elements of one offense negates a necessary element of another offense.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[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 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.