State v. Comish’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2019
9 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 98 Cal. App. 2d 1 - People v. Griffin · 27 Utah 2d 326 - State v. Kasai · 13 Utah 2d 148 - State v. Pacheco · Halquist v. State · 51 Ala. App. 285 - Grissom 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person, acting with the mental state required for the commission of an offense who directly commits the offense, who solicits, requests, commands, encourages, or intentionally aids another person to engage in conduct which constitutes an offense shall be criminally liable as a party for such conduct.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jeffs · State v. Gonzales“Iulnder [the] statute and under the generally accepted meaning of the term, ... 'accomplice' ... does not include a person who ... merely provides an opportunity for one who is disposed to commit a crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jeffs“[Aln 'accomplice' is one who participates in a crime in such a way that he could be charged and tried for the same offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Briggs
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.