State v. Cayton’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Federal Election Commission v. Machinists Non-Partisan Political League · San Vicente Medical Partners, Ltd. v. Orr · State Ex Rel. Graffagnino v. King · State v. Duncan
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All persons concerned in the commission of a crime, whether present or absent, and whether they directly commit the act constituting the offense, aid and abet in its commission, or directly or indirectly counsel or procure another to commit the crime, are principals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson
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.