Dunkle v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Richardson v. State (1999), Elmore v. State (1978)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 Blockburger v. United States · Short v. State · Siberry v. State · Leatherman v. Board of Commissioners · Gillenwaters v. Biddle
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.
““4. Aim. ‘The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, at, or so as to bear upon, the object intended to be struck; the line of sighting; hence, the direction of anything, as a spear, a blow . . . toward a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.’ Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition.” 241 Ind. at 553 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Palmer v. Decker“well established rules of statutory construction, as well as upon the definition of the terms used ... [o]ur conclusion then is that to draw a weapon within the purview of § 448 ... is a separate and distinct offense from that of pointing or aiming a weapon under § 452.... Appellant was not therefore twice convicted for but one offense....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richardson v. State““Whoever draws, or threatens to use, any pistol, dirk, knife, slung-shot or other deadly or dangerous weapon, already drawn upon any other person, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.. ..””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Palmer v. Decker
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.