State v. Jernigan’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably State v. Gutierrez (2007), State v. Nozie (2009)
48 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 United States v. Booker · Blakely v. Washington · State v. Coffin · State v. Meadors · State v. Campos
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence has been presented that ... Defendant did not know that Richard Henley was a peace officer. The burden is on the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that ... Defendant knew that Richard Henley was a peace officer. If you have a reasonable doubt as to whether ... Defendant knew that Richard Henley was a peace officer, you must find ... Defendant not guilty of the crime of aggravated assault of a peace officer (deadly weapon). If after reasonable deliberation, you do not agree that ... Defendant is guilty of aggravated assault of a peace officer (deadly weapon), you should move to a discussion of aggravated assault (deadly weapon). If you unanimously agree that ... Defendant is guilty of aggravated assault (deadly weapon), you will return a verdict of guilty of aggravated assault (deadly weapon). A “peace officer” is any public official or public officer vested by law with a duty to maintain public order or to make arrests for [a] crime, whether that duty extends to all crimes or is limited to specific crimes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Akers“Failure to instruct the jury on a lesser[-]included offense of a charged offense is reversible error if: (1) the lesser offense is included in the greater, charged offense; (2) there is evidence tending to establish the lesser[-]included offense and that evidence establishes that the lesser offense is the highest degree of crime committed; and (3) the defendant has tendered appropriate instructions preserving the issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Nozie
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.