Arney v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably May v. State (1981), Kunkle v. State (1986)
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 Stephenson v. State · Ransonette v. State · Easter v. State · Washburn v. State · Gonzales 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““with intent that the offense of robbery be committed agree[d] with Marion Edward Coulston and Roland Bassham to while in the course of committing theft of money of the United States, hereinafter called the property, from Jennings Whit-ter, with intent to obtain and maintain control of the property, knowingly and intentionally cause bodily injury to Jennings Whitter and, in pursuance of such agreement, Marion Edward Coulston did shoot the said Jennings Whitter with the gun while attempting to commit robbery of the said Jennings Whitter.” Id. at 839 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dade v. State“When there is a question as to whether a witness is an accomplice, it is proper to submit that issue to the jury, and this is sufficient even though the evidence appears largely to preponderate in favor of the witness being an accomplice. It is only when the evidence clearly shows that the witness is an accomplice witness as a matter of law that the trial court has a duty to so instruct the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Castillo v. State“while in the course of committing theft of property owned by Robert Quintanilla, Jr., and with intent to obtain and maintain control of the property, intentionally and knowingly threatened and placed Robert Quintanilla, Jr. in fear of imminent bodily injury and death, and (appellant) did then and there use and exhibit a deadly weapon, to wit: a firearm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Mize 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.