Barren v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Evans v. State (2001), Randolph v. State (2001)
4 district · 42 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 Yeomans v. Kentucky · State v. Smolin · People v. Scheidt · Scott v. State · Brimmage 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the prosecution seeks to establish a defendant’s guilt on a theory of aiding and abetting, the indictment should specifically allege the defendant aided and abetted, and should provide additional information as to the specific acts constituting the means of the aiding and abetting so as to afford the defendant adequate notice to prepare his defense.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ikie v. State · Randolph v. State“[a]lthough any prosecutor might well desire the luxury of having an option not to reveal his or her basic factual theories, and wish for the right to change the theory of a case at will, such practices hardly comport with accepted notions of due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“COUNT I — ATTEMPT MURDER WITH USE OF A DEADLY WEAPON [Mitchell] did then and there, without authority of law and malice aforethought, willfully and feloniously attempt to kill COLIN KEEL, a human being, by shooting at the said COLIN KEEL with a deadly weapon, to-wit: a firearm, by Defendant DONATHAN SMITH directly committing said act and Defendant JOHNNIE MITCHELL aiding or abetting its commission through counsel and encouragement in order to carry out the acts as set forth in Count IV. COUNT IV— ROBBERY WITH USE OF A DEADLY WEAPON [Mitchell] did then and there willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously take personal property, to-wit: lawful money of the United States, from the person of WILMA BECK, using a deadly weapon, to-wit: a firearm, during the commission of said crime, Defendant JOHNNIE MITCHELL directly committing said act or aiding or abetting in its commission by acting in concert with others by taking some money from WILMA BECK and/or acting as a look-out during the entire incident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. State
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.