State v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2013
18 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 Taylor v. United States · People v. Prettyman · Owens v. State · 57 Ill. 2d 493 - People v. Kessler · State v. Middlebrooks
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Acting with the culpability required for the offense, the person causes or aids an innocent or irresponsible person to engage in conduct prohibited by the definition of the offense; (2) Acting with intent to promote or assist the commission of the offense, or to benefit in the proceeds or results of the offense, the person solicits, directs, aids, or attempts to aid another person to commit the offense; or (3) Having a duty imposed by law or voluntarily undertaken to prevent commission of the offense and acting with intent to benefit in the proceeds or results of the offense, or to promote or assist its commission, the person fails to make a reasonable effort to prevent commission of the offense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Howard · State v. Lemacks“[t]o find the defendant guilty of this offense, as charged, the [sjtate must have proven beyond a reasonable doubt the existence of the following essential elements: (1) [t]hat the defendant unlawfully killed Stacy Robinson; (2) [t]hat the defendant acted intentionally. A person acts intentionally with respect to the nature of the conduct or to a result of the conduct when it is the person’s conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause the result; and (3) [t]hat the killing was premeditated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hill
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.