Mares v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2020
10 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 Sandstrom v. Montana · Solem v. Helm · Harmelin v. Michigan · Enmund v. Florida · People v. Aaron
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the felony murder rule is the subject of much criticism for its potential harshness, for instance in the cireumstance where the killing is an independent act of a co-felon[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wyatt L. Bear Cloud
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.