State v. Dotson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2018
6 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 State v. Castaldi
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While presence alone does not prove an aider and abettment, when a person present at the commission of the offense shows by some affirmative participation that the crime is an enterprise he wishes to bring about, he becomes an aider and abettor. State v. Castaldi, 386 S.W.2d 392, 395 [3] (Mo.1965). The evidence that the defendant was in the company of the eventual seller of the contraband at the outset of transaction, then directed the eventual purchasers of the contraband: “If you want the pot, follow us outside.” [emphasis added], and then remained in the physical presence of the active actors until after the consummation of the exchanges, proves that he consciously assisted and encouraged the commission of the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Puig
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.