State v. Buggs’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
42
cited by 42 later decisions
7
states following
November 2017
most recently cited
39 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Sandstrom v. Montana · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand · State v. Cabbage · Huntzinger v. United States
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a legal fiction in which the intent and the malice to commit the underlying felony is `transferred' to elevate an unintentional killing to ... murder.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Metheny v. State · State v. Allen“a jury may reasonably infer from a defendant's actions immediately after a killing that the defendant had the intent to commit the felony prior to, or concurrent with, the killing”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Phillips“The killing must have had an intimate relation and close connection with the felony ... and not be separate, distinct, and independent from it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rice
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.