State v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
December 2009
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Denno · State v. Lytle · State v. Buckles · State v. Hughes · Holtkamp 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A person commits the crime of murder in the second degree if he: (1) Knowingly causes the death of another person or, with the purpose of causing serious physical injury to another person, causes the death of another person.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez 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.