State v. Malone’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2022
12 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 Henderson v. Kibbe · United States v. Guillette · State v. Leopold · Frink v. State · City of Fairbanks v. Nesbett
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A criminal defendant can be held responsible only for injuries that “result from” or are “caused by” his conduct. But the defendant’s conduct need not be the sole factor in producing the injury. Rather, the test is whether the defendant’s conduct was a “substantial factor” in bringing about the result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“by the defendant's conduct.... [The law calls the other person's conduct a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson 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.