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← 78 P.3d 1012 - State v. Bolar

State v. Bolar’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
June 2015
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Martin v. Ohio · 119 Wash. 2d 192 - State v. Salinas · 147 Wash. 2d 330 - State v. Brown · 115 Wash. 2d 609 - State v. Dennison · State v. Roberts

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

  1. “when it comes to felony murder standing alone, and where the evidence conclusively shows that all of the participants acted as principals in committing the predicate felony, an accomplice liability instruction is superfluous, for the felony murder statute itself establishes the complicity of both the killer and nonkiller participant... as principals.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Carter · State v. Carter
  2. “(i) Solicits, commands, encourages, or requests such other person to commit [the crime]; or (ii) Aids or agrees to aid such other person in planning or committing [the crime].”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Lazcano · State v. Trout
  3. “(1) A person is guilty of murder in the first degree when: .... (c) He or she commits or attempts to commit the crime of either (1) robbery in the first or second degree ... [or] (3) burglary in the first degree ... and in the course of or in furtherance of such crime or in immediate flight therefrom, he or she, or another participant, causes the death of a person other than one of the participants....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Carter

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.