Fairchild v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Sartin v. State (2012), United States v. Eason (2016)
4 federal appellate · 23 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 Cary v. State · Chaviers v. State · Thomas v. State · United States v. Amos · Core v. State
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e are not persuaded that appellant’s hand under his shirt, even with the admitted intention of conveying to the victim that he was armed, is sufficient representation to satisfy the requirements of aggravated robbery in the absence of the victim’s appreciation that he was armed. It is clear from Mrs. Calva’s testimony that she did not attach any special significance to this conduct and certainly did not perceive it to be in any way threatening.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State · Clemmons v. State“(1) A person commits aggravated robbery as defined in Section 2103 of Act 280 of 1975 (Arkansas Statutes Annotated 41-2103) and he: (a) is armed with a deadly weapon, or represents by word or conduct that he is so armed . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Alfay v. State · Smith v. State
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.