State v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] person is criminally responsible for the conduct of another when [[Image here]] (2) Either before or during the commission of an offense with the purpose of promoting the commission of an offense, he aids or agrees to aid or attempts to aid such other person in planning, committing or attempting to commit the offense.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Todd · State v. Puig

2. “As to Count One, if you find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt: First, that on or about May 25, 2014, in the County of Audrain, State of Missouri, the defendant committed the felony of unlawful possession, of a firearm, as submitted in Instruction No. 40, and ' Second, that [Victim] was shot by a firearm possessed by defendant, and Third, that [Victim] was killed by the perpetration of that unlawful possession of a firearm, Then you will find the defendant guilty under Count One of murder in the second degree under this instruction,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Harding

3. “'inferred from surrounding facts' such as the 'defendant's conduct before the act, from the act itself, and from the defendant's subsequent conduct.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Thompson