State v. Curley’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably State v. Baca (1997), State v. McGruder (1997)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 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 Commonwealth v. Jones · Gracia v. Bittner · State v. Pisio · State v. Fuentes · State v. Aldershof
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he victim was walking out of a mall with her daughter when Defendant grabbed her purse and ran away. The victim described, the incident as follow[s]: “I had my purse on my left side ... and I felt kind of a shove of my left shoulder where I had my purse strap with my thumb through it and I kind of leaned-was pushed-toward my daughter, and this person came and just grabbed the strap of my purse and continued to run.” The victim used the words “grab” or “pull” to describe the actual taking of the purse and “shove” or “push” to describe what Defendant did as' he grabbed or “pulled [the purse] from her arm and hand.” However, there was also evidence that the victim’s thumb was not through the strap of the purse, 'but was rather on the bottom of the purse. The purse strap was not broken, and the victim did not testify that she struggled with Defendant for the purse in any way or that any part of her body offered any resistance or' even moved when the purse was pulled from her arm and hand. Defendant presented evidence that he was drunk and did not-remember the incident at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when property is attached to the person or clothing of a victim so as to cause resistance, any taking is a robbery, and not larceny, because the lever that causes the victim to part with the property is the force that is applied to break that resistance; however, when no more force is used than would be necessary to remove property from a person who does not resist, then the offense is larceny, and not robbery. In our cases where we have not found sufficient force to be involved, the victim did not resist the property being taken from his person. 11”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`of the evidence pursuant to which the lesser offense is the highest degree of crime committed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gaitan
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.