People v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Chapman v. State of California · Arizona v. Fulminante · Estelle v. McGuire
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'When a defendant commits a robbery by displaying an object that looks like a gun, the object's appearance and the defendant's conduct and words in using it may constitute sufficient circumstantial evidence to support a finding that it was a firearm. The victim's inability to say conclusively that the gun was real and not a toy does not create a reasonable doubt as a matter of law that the gun was a firearm.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the jury could just as accurately have been told the opposite, that when a defendant displays an object that looks like a gun, the object's appearance and the defendant's conduct may constitute sufficient circumstantial evidence to support a finding that it was not a firearm .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.