Zgombic v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably McNair v. State (1992), Kaczmarek v. State (2004)
56 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 Blockburger v. United States · Thomas v. Washington Gas Light Co. · McKay v. Board of Sup'rs of Carson City · 40 Ill. 2d 193 - Maki v. Frelk · Commonwealth v. Tarrant
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if used in the ordinary manner contemplated by its design and construction, will, or is likely to, cause a life-threatening injury or death.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“193.165 Additional penalty: Use of a deadly weapon or tear gas in commission of crime; restriction of probation. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 193.169, any person who uses a firearm or other deadly weapon ... in the commission of a crime shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term equal to and in addition to the term of imprisonment prescribed by statute for the crime. The sentence prescribed by this section runs consecutively with the sentence prescribed by statute for the crime. 2. This section does not create any separate offense but provides an additional penalty for the primary offense, whose imposition is contingent upon the finding of the prescribed fact. 3. The provisions of subsections 1 and 2 do not apply where the use of a firearm, [or] other deadly weapon ... is a necessary element of such crime. 4. The court shall not grant probation to or suspend the sentence of any person who is convicted of using a firearm, other deadly weapon or tear gas in the commission of any of the following crimes: (b) Kidnaping in the first degree; (c) Sexual assault ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“in a few close cases where the court cannot determine as a matter of law whether the weapon is or is not a deadly weapon, the judge will need to submit the entire issue to the jury after instructing it on the previously stated definition of a deadly weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buff 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.