State v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2005
10 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 Anderson v. Adamson · State v. Giuliano · Crosby v. Sande
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That on or about August 1, 1979, in the County of Minnehaha, State of South Dakota, DONNA RAE QUINN, CECELIA ROSE WILLIAMS, and LEVI D. BIG CROW did commit the public offense of aggravated assault in that DONNA RAE QUINN, CECELA (sic) ROSE WILLIAMS, and LEVI D. BIG CROW did wilfully, unlawfully, and feloniously cause injury to the person of Wilma Weisner, under circumstances manifesting an extreme indifference to the value of human life, which conduct was in violation of SDCL 22 18 1.1(1), contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the State of South Dakota, and prays that the said Defendants may be arrested and dealt with according to law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams
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.