State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably State v. Sutherland (1991), State v. Prince (1980)
44 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. Buggs · State v. Prince · Commonwealth v. Layton · State v. Stuart and Jones · State v. Mitchell
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In an appeal from a conviction of aggravated robbery (K.S.A. 21-3427) the court holds a starter pistol is a dangerous weapon. Since robbery has always involved intimidation or fear, the circumstances of the robbery, including the weapon, are examined from the victim’s point of view. An object can be a dangerous weapon if intended by the user to convince the victim that it is a dangerous weapon and the victim reasonably believes it is a dangerous weapon.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““For purposes of sentencing under K.S.A. 1978 Supp. 21-4618, a ‘firearm’ is defined as an object having the design or capacity to propel a projectile by force of an explosion, gas, or other combustion.””
3 later decisions 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.