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← 877 A.2d 642 - State v. Davis

State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Banach · State v. SALUTER. · State v. Brown · State v. Collins · State v. Hazard

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

  1. “"[e]very person who shall aid, assist, abet, counsel, hire, command, or procure another to commit any crime or offense, shall be proceeded against as principal or as an accessory before the fact, according to the nature of the offense committed, and upon conviction shall suffer the like punishment as the principal offender is subject to by this title.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The failure to contemporaneously object to the trial justice's instructions results in a waiver of any claim of error on appeal, unless, in the rare instance, 'the alleged error rises to substantial constitutional dimensions.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the burden of proving `every element necessary to constitute the crime charged beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.