State v. Hanks’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably State v. Bird (1985), State v. Verge (2001)
2 federal appellate · 60 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 Corallo v. United States · State v. Faulkner · State v. Pham · State v. Dorsey · State v. Ralls
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A deadly weapon is an instrument which, from the manner in which it is used, is calculated or likely to produce death or serious bodily injury.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘The prosecutor is entitled to considerable latitude in arguing the case to a jury. State v. Potts, 205 Kan. 47 , 468 P.2d 78 . There is no prejudicial error where the questionable statements of a prosecuting attorney are provoked and made in response to previous arguments or statements of defense counsel.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Bird“[b]attery committed with a deadly weapon is aggravated battery”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lowe
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.