State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions

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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Our examination of the record in the instant cause establishes that appellant participated in the planning and commission of the robbery, and also acquiesced in the employment of a deadly weapon to accomplish this crime. Under these circumstances appellant must have realized that the victim's life would be endangered by the manner and means of performing the act conspired, and accordingly, appellant is bound by the consequences naturally resulting from the furtherance of the conspiracy to commit the aggravated robbery. We therefore hold that the jury had before it sufficient evidence from which to find that appellant possessed a purposeful intent to kill.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ogletree, Unpublished Decision (5-11-2006)

2. “[n]o person shall purposely cause the death of another... while committing or attempting to commit, or while fleeing immediately after committing or attempting to commit ... aggravated robbery and/or aggravated burglary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Thomas