Wade v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 23 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... is subject to the limitation that there must be a nexus between the underlying felony and the death of the victim. The felony must be inherently or potentially dangerous to human life, inherently dangerous as determined by the elements of the offense or potentially dangerous in light of the facts and circumstances surrounding both the felony and the homicide. Wade, supra, at 916 .”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. IN RE ADOPTION OF THE 2018 REVISIONS TO THE OKLAHOMA UNIFORM JURY INSTRUCTIONS-CRIMINAL (SECOND EDITION) · Quillen v. State

2. “[T]he malice or premeditated intent involved in the [defendant's] perpetration or attempted perpetration of the [predicate] felony is 'transferred' or 'imputed' to the commission of the homicide[.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Quillen v. State · SIMMS v. STATE

3. “the felony perpetrated by the defendant is the proximate cause of the victim's death in order to establish the crime of Murder.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. IN RE ADOPTION OF THE 2018 REVISIONS TO THE OKLAHOMA UNIFORM JURY INSTRUCTIONS-CRIMINAL (SECOND EDITION)