Chao v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
4 district · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Teague v. Lane · Davis v. United States · Gutknecht v. United States · Dugger v. Adams · Flamer 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the course of and in furtherance of.” That section now provides that person is guilty of "felony-murder” when, "[w]hile engaged in the commission of, or attempt to commit, or flight after committing or attempting to commit any felony, the person recklessly causes the death of another person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Burrell 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.