Vance v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Harrison v. State (1995), Peterson v. State (1996)
25 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 Patterson v. State · Modesitt v. State · Martinez Chavez v. State · Stallings v. State · Dixon 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[WJhile the crime of murder does require specific intent to kill, the crime of felony murder, for which appellant herein was convicted, does not, requiring instead proof only of intent to commit the underlying felony....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buie 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.