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← 593 SW2D 535 - State v. Downs

State v. Downs’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
1
states following
March 2010
most recently cited

37 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably State v. Newlon (1982), State v. Shaw (1982)

37 state decisions

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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 State v. Stringer · State v. Harris · State v. Sykes · State v. Brooks · State v. Tandy

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

  1. “The fundamental test of the sufficiency of an information is whether or not it states the essential elements of the offense charged so that the defendant is adequately informed of the charge against him and the final disposition of the charge will constitute a bar to further prosecution for the same offense.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Mitchell · State v. Nash
  2. “in violation of Section 565.001 RSMo . .. the defendant acting with another willfully, knowingly, with premeditation killed (-) Williams by shooting him on or about October 29, 1980, in the County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, thereby causing him to die ...”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Gilmore
  3. “Any person who unlawfully, willfully, knowingly, deliberately, and with premeditation kills or causes the killing of another human being is guilty of the offense of capital murder.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Gilmore

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.