Appleton v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
November 2016
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Irick v. United States · Wilson-Bey v. United States · Mercer v. United States · Clayborne v. United States
Most-quoted passages
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“natural and probable consequences” language that Wilson-Bey had disapproved, and it properly informed the jury that to convict a defendant as an aider and abettor, it had to find that he “knowingly” associated himself with the commission of a crime, participated in the crime as something that he”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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