State v. Burch’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2018
20 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 State v. Grim · State v. Dulany · State v. Mallett · State v. Sidebottom · State v. Schneider
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Aiders and abettors who act with common purpose with active participants in the crime incur criminal liability by any form of affirmative advancement of the enterprise. Indicia of aiding and abetting include presence at the scene of the crime, flight therefrom and association with others involved before, during and after commission of the crime. A defendant’s presence at the scene and his companionship and conduct before and after the offense are circumstances from which one’s participation in the crime may be inferred. Proof of any form of participation by a defendant in the crime is sufficient to support a conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“by, with, or through the use, assistance, or aid of a dangerous instrument or deadly weapon.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘Dangerous instrument’ means any instrument, article or substance, which, under the circumstances in which it. is used, is readily capable of causing death or other serious physical injury;....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
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.