English v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2014 · most notably Holtan v. Nebraska (1980), Cannon v. State (1985)
2 federal appellate · 65 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 Pitts v. State · Livingston v. State · Wilder v. State · Hughes v. State · Ruiz 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) If, in the attempt to carry out a conspiracy to commit one felony, another felony is committed by one of the conspir ators, all conspirators are guilty of the felony actually committed, though having no intent to commit it, if the offense was committed in furtherance of the unlawful purpose and was one that should have been anticipated as a result of the carrying out of the conspiracy. (Emphasis added.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wood v. State · Rogers v. State““[A] party to an offense may be charged with the offense without alleging the facts which make the defendant a party to the offense and criminally responsible for the conduct of another. If the evidence supports a charge on the law of parties, as it does here, the court may charge on the law of parties even though there is no such allegation in the indictment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“All persons are parties to an offense who are guilty of acting together in the commission of the offense. A person is criminally responsible as a party to an offense if the offense is committed by his own conduct, by the conduct of another for which he is criminally responsible, or by both. A person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the conduct of another if, acting with intent to promote or assist the commission of the offense, he solicits, encourages, directs, aids, or attempts to aid the other person to commit the offense. Mere presence alone will not constitute one a party to an offense. Before you would be warranted in convicting the defendant, Clayvell Daudre Richard of capital murder, you must find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt not only that on the occasion in question the defendant was in the course or committing or attempt to commit the felony offense of robbery of Shonette M. Martin, as defined in this charge, but also that during the commission of the robbery or attempted commission thereof, if any, either the defendant shot Phillip Griffin with the intention of thereby killing him, or the defendant, Clayvell Daudre Richard, with the intent to promote or assist the commission of the offense of murder, if any, solicited, encouraged, directed, aided, or attempted to aid James Wood Foster and/or Robert Gandy in shooting Phillip Griffin with the intention of thereby killing him. Unless you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable dou”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richard 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.