State v. Sein’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably State v. Thomas (2001), State v. Mejia (1995)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 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 State v. Butler · State v. Churchdale Leasing, Inc. · 76 Ill. 2d 45 - People v. Patton · Commonwealth v. Brown · 52 N.J. Super. 316 - State v. Cottone
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires more force than that necessary merely to snatch [an] object”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“some degree of force to wrest the object from the victim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] simple snatching or sudden taking of property from the person of another does not of itself involve sufficient force to constitute robbery, though the act may be robbery where a struggle ensues, the victim is injured in the taking, or the property is so attached to the victim’s person or clothing as to create resistance to the taking. [People v. Patton, 76 Ill.2d. 45, 49, 27 Ill.Dec. 766, 767 , 389 N.E.2d 1174, 1175 (1979).] [Id. at 213-214, 590 A.2d 665 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.