Briano v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Petrocelli v. State (1985), Leonard v. State (2001)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 34 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. Faust · State v. Millain · State v. Hall · State v. Loveless · Wheeler 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that a design to kill was distinctly and rationally formed in the mind of the perpetrator, at or before the time the fatal blows were struck,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to make a case of murder in the first degree, the state must prove that a design to kill was distinctly and rationally formed in the mind of the perpetrator, at or before the time that the fatal blows were struck. The state need not prove motive. Nor does it matter how short a time existed between the formation of the design to kill and the killing itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. State“Evidence of premeditation and deliberation is seldom direct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.