State v. Roberson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 2017
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Cabbage · State v. Grace · State v. DuBose · State v. Hill
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The child murder statute criminalizes the reckless killing of a child less than sixteen if the child’s death results from aggravated child abuse, which is the knowing treatment or neglect of a child so as to cause injury or adversely affect the child’s health. In other words, the more serious charge simply requires an additional element that, along with the knowing act of [aggravated] child abuse or neglect, the person consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that death could occur. 15”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Torres
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.